pickShort and good.
I laughed at parts and nodded my head at others. She makes good points on different subjects.
Recommend.
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope | 
pickShort and good.
I laughed at parts and nodded my head at others. She makes good points on different subjects.
Recommend.
I love Anne Lamott. A former college friend introduced me to her. While I do not follow Christian teachings I still find inspiration and love in her words.
Found this on display at one of my favorite indie bookstores. Thanks Anne! Just what I needed today.
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I have known hell, and I have also known love. Love was bigger.
I picked this up today. I‘m hoping it‘s going to be hopeful in some way, as I could use some hope as we‘re going into the holiday season, and things feel a bit overwhelming.
pickThis is a weird one! At times it was hopeful and deep and insightful but other times it was bleak, depressing and kinda whiney!
#QuotsyMar21 #unplug #march
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I love quotes. Collect them, write them in my notebook diary and planner. Not sure how I didn't find this challenge earlier🙈🙈
pickI generally enjoyed this, and found it to be a good message of hope. But there were times when it felt disjointed. She would bring up an idea but not seem to finish addressing it, move on to another, and I'd be waiting for her to go back to the idea. Sometimes she did, sometimes she didn't. Still, I enjoyed it and it made for good book group conversation.
pickAhh, Anne Lamott! She releases a lot of books, and I like them all. I am grateful for people like Anne putting out such works into the world.
pickAnne Lamott really gets us, doesn‘t she? 🤣
In this latest book, she‘s back with more provoking wisdom on finding hope and joy in our complicated lives and chaotic world. 🙌🏻
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pickOne of the things I love about Anne Lamott is that I don't agree with everything she says. I feel confident if she heard me say this though, she'd shrug and go, "that's cool. I don't agree with everything you say either." ? What I love most about her is this: the nuggets of wisdom in her work are so vast there's not a tote bag in the world that could hold them.
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Because every day needs a bit of hope...
Now I want cheese.
Thankfully, I went to Artisan Cheese Company and can make myself a cheese plate with the yummy cheeses and cured meats recommended by the cheesemongers there. ❤️
pickI don‘t usually read people who are connected to Jesus or spirituality, but I also think it‘s important for me to branch out and hear their stories too. Lamott does well with this. She cites Bible passages but also acknowledges that there are many things to believe in. These words, many of them, but not all, came to me at a really good time.
I take a break from current reads every evening to read a chapter in the tagged book. Anne Lamott has kept me sane during the chaos in the world over the last couple of years. Hot cocoa helps, too.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, even you.
We definitely need to unplug now and then and reset ourselves 🙂
pickSome parts are better than others, but overall it‘s a good book. Insightful, thoughtful, hopeful, and real.
“...we are fused with people when we hate the. We‘re not us anymore. We become like them.”
"Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy."
Love this. Happy Monday, #littens. Photo is my fat Lola in her natural habitat. #CatsofLitsy
pickGrace, hope, grief, love, and so much more. This hits exactly the right notes. It made my soul happy.
#sundayfunday @sebrittain
Almost Everything, Anne Lamott
Ten Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby
The Diary of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers, Terri-Lynne DeFino
Three hours in the service department this morning to fix a couple of minor things on my car. Good thing I was prepared. #Ibroughtabook #IReadAnywhere #AlwaysBringABook
pickThere is a lot to ponder with this essay collection. I could probably read this several times and get something different out of it each time.
Grabbed this from the library, maybe I can knock this out tonight.
“Scientists say we are made of stars, and I believe them, although my upper arms look like hell. Maybe someday the stars will reabsorb me. Maybe, as fundamentalist Christians have shared with me, I will rot in hell for all eternity, which I would hate, because I am very sensitive. Besides, I have known hell, and I have also known love. Love was bigger.”
Jodi Picoult and Annie Lamott both on C-SPAN2 today 😃
pickI seem to need a good dose of Anne Lamott about as often as she releases a new book. I certainly needed this one, with its very Lamott-ish thoughts in defense of hope and against hate. 💚✨
pickEvery Anne Lamott book that I read has me feeling “oh come on” at the beginning and “oh wow OK yes” at the end. Her books model life‘s trajectory: skepticism, belief, repeat. She is at once our best friend and our pragmatic counselor, tough love and lots of hugs and laughter. If you‘re not more hopeful by the end of this book, you need to reread it. And isn‘t the cover gorgeous? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and about the place hope holds in our lives.
Anne Lamott has a new book coming out in mid October and one of her tour stops is in my neighborhood. Be still my heart! 😍❤️🙌🏻
