pickI think this is the first fiction of hers I've read. It was, as her non-fiction is, very personal but illustrative of much larger themes. I can't relate to much of Lamott's interests or expertise but she can distill the drama of her characters into truths of such clarity that I do find myself moved by her 'ordinary lives'. I'm not a drug addict but maybe I was addicted to a lifestyle and the woodlot is my wilderness rehab - that sort of thing.
Someone remind me to replace my emergency car book since I started this one yesterday after ending up somewhere without a book and a longer than planned wait time.
pan“Imperfect Birds” is a major disappointment from an author whose work, including the brilliant novel “Rosie,” I used to admire. There are some outstanding scenes here, but they are overshadowed by Lamott‘s reliance on New Age-type platitudes and appalling vulgarity
So far so good! However I‘m officially terrified to have teenage children someday 🙈
Just stumbled across this lovely quote!
“I see them [librarians] as healers and magicians. Librarians can tease out of inarticulate individuals enough information about what they are after to lead them on to the path of connection. They are trail guides through the forest of shelves & aisles — you turn a person loose who has limited skills, & he‘ll be walloped by the branches. But librarians match up readers with the right books.“
-Anne Lamott
bailedI had to return this one to the library, so... I still haven't finished an Anne Lamott book. Boo!
Starting my first Lamott tonight. It sounds like a difficult subject (the directions our children go), but I hope it's not as disturbing to me as the last book I tried to read!
pickI guess the ending didn't satisfy me. But otherwise, exquisite, beautiful Lamott. Also, so excruciating, to think of all the ways in which my children might manipulate me in not so many years. I literally had nightmares. 5 🌟 #minibookreview
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