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Between Mothers and Sons: Women Writers Talk about Having Sons and Raising Men

6 reviews

Scribner, 1999

Memorable reading, great range of experiences
Each in her own way, the writers in this collection make complex connections -- with their sons and with readers. There's a great range of experiences here for the reader who wants to concentrate on the mother-son relationship rather than on family relationships in general. I sometimes cried and more often laughed -- but I also thought about my female friends and their sons, and agreed with ...

All New People

12 reviews
Anne Lamott

Counterpoint, 1999

Anne Lamott is amazing!
I think that Anne Lamott is one of the most amazing writers of our time! I have read everything she has ever written, both fiction and non-fiction and have always eagerly awaited her next book! I only wish that Oprah would discover her and then the rest of the world can find out what they have been missing! I know Anne has a devoted, loyal following but she deserves to be a best-selling author! ...

Hard Laughter

25 reviews
Anne Lamott

Signet, 1981

love the brutal honesty
How could anyone not love this book (and the author)?!? Never have I read such a brutally honest account of ones life. Anne Lamott's writing is so refreshly sincere. All believers in Christ should rally around Ms. Lamott and encourage her to continue to bare her naked soul to the rest of the world. I read reviews that said she was irreverent, which if you read with a closed mind you may find ...

Hard Laughter
Anne Lamott

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1988

Blue Shoe

92 reviews
Anne Lamott

Wheeler Publishing, 2003

The Truth Shall Set Your Free But First It Will Make You Miserable
The S.F. Bay area's Anne Lamott is well known through her fiction (Joe Jones, Crooked Little Heart, All New People, etc.) and non-fiction (Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith). Both adored and distrusted for her outspoken faith and her hilarious candor about messy issues like sexual mores, abortion, divorce, Lamott's writings demonstrate that life is a bundle of ...

Crooked Little Heart

61 reviews
Anne Lamott

Random House Value Publishing, 1999

"Crying withheld feels sometimes like dying..."
I really loved this book, mostly because I could empathize with Rosie's middle school angst and insecurites. But I also admire (and envy) Lamott's writing in general - she creates beautiful phrases such as "it was so hot that the only things moving outside were the crickets and the anorexics" and "the sun smelled warm, like laundry in the dryer, like melting yellow crayons." Her writing startles ...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

297 reviews
Anne Lamott

Pantheon, 1994

Finally someone who tells it the way it really is!!
I am a Christian and and writer, and Anne Lamott is the best I have found out there writing on both subjects. You might not agree with something she says but if you stop, think about it, really let it sink in, she usually hits it right on the mark. Reading her book has truly inspired me and helped me to continue to write against all odds. I am going right now to download another Anne Lamott ...