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... Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine.
So this is a much different viewpoint than my previous read, Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies.
Traveling Mercies was the first Anne Lamott book I've read. I really enjoyed it and I'll be looking for more (although I'm trying not to acquire much more until I get through some of the ones I really want to read from Mt TBR. So many books! So little time!) I'm interested in writing and ... ... and when?
I have just come over from the starter thread where streamsong has written her reflections on Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies and I have a few questions to think about - but please feel free to add your own thoughts. Neither Laura or I wish to direct too much. Most importantly ... #34 Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
The first of several books about women and spirituality that I'm reading for the July/August girlybooks read.
Anne Lamott is a Liberal Democrat unwed mother and a Christian. She is a great refreshing voice and a far different one than the more usual (ster ... I just finished Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies and I really, really liked it. I've read several of the 'spiritual journey' type books and Lamott is a different voice--hooray for a liberal Democrat unwed mother Christian voice. She definitely doesn't fall into the conservative norm that one ... ... going to try to read several--in fact I'm hoping for four. I'll definitely be reading Dakota by Kathleen Norris and Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott. Both of these were mentioned above by terriergirl.
For the other two, I'll pick non-Christian works. I have all of Pema Chodron's ... ... read the prior 84 postings (maybe later) before I got in my two-measly-cents-worth.
I did a search in the thread for Traveling Mercies by the magnificent Anne Lamott, and found it three postings ago at #82 (twomoredays). Way to go, twomoredays! This is my "quick" response to the ... ... but these are the books that have helped me from agnostic/atheistic Unitarian Universalist to Christian.
Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies and Plan B, while maybe seen by many Christians as too messy or doctrinally unsound (though I don't think there's much doctrine if my memory serves me) ... ... You Eat at the Refrigerator Pull up a Chair by Geneen Roth
17.A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris
18. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
19. On the Edge of Darkness by Kathy Cronkite
20. Biting the Hand that Starves You by Richard Maisel
21. Feeding the Hun ... ... and writers. She herself spent some time in seminary and is also trained as a journalist.
Christianity
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies, Plan B, Grace Eventually
Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and “Women’s Work”, Dakota, The Cloister Walk, Am ... ... books on faith were much better. She is a better writer than this book indicates.
If you aren't familiar with her work, traveling Mercies is much better.
I also read a Tony Hillerman which was disappointing, not up to his usual best. this was Hunting Badger & I usually count on Mr. Hiller ... ... of Two Dogs and a Boy by Wilson Rawls
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Contact by Carl Sagan
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gour ... Anne Lamott's nonfiction books about faith are hilarious. Plan B and Traveling Mercies are excellent self-examinations full of humor. Her newest, Grace, Eventually is on my shelf; I anticipate it will be every bit as good. I just finished Blue Like Jazz, and now I'm working on getting through Traveling Mercies. Not so sure about it yet, but she writes beautifully and I love that part, at least.
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