Angela's review
Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
I enjoyed this book. I moved through it, riding the emotional ebbs & tides it's characters created, filled with sorrow & erupting with laughter. It was hauntingly familiar. As I read it kept bringing back moments of Anne Lamott's own life as if excerpts from her memoirs in new flesh. As with Anne's writing the truth comes to you frankly and you take it as it is. That's how these character's lives are laid bare, in all their shame & all their joy, they are made awkwardly & endearingly real. I was brokenhearted for their brokenness.
There are passages of sexuality that are a bit raw for my own senses. I could have done without those images flickering in my head. They don't magnify the desperation the characters feel nor illustrate the commonness of their need as I believe they were intended to do. That said, I appreciate how simply put those passages were. They were not sensationalized or mist filled encounters. That, in itself, is a rare thing.
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There are passages of sexuality that are a bit raw for my own senses. I could have done without those images flickering in my head. They don't magnify the desperation the characters feel nor illustrate the commonness of their need as I believe they were intended to do. That said, I appreciate how simply put those passages were. They were not sensationalized or mist filled encounters. That, in itself, is a rare thing.
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