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How Lamott experienced a very up and down kind of life before finding her faith is very moving.
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I'm not even Christian and I love her nonfiction. Some of her spiritual insights, especially from Operating Instructions, the first and most concentrated one, have helped me whole bunches! I just apply them to my own beliefs.
I always love reading a book that makes you feel like the author could sit down and have a real conversation over coffee. Anne has that talent in her writing.
Erin Joy wrote: "I always love reading a book that makes you feel like the author could sit down and have a real conversation over coffee. Anne has that talent in her writing."I agree with you wholeheartedly there! I have often told my husband while reading her books, "I want to meet Anne!!"
Frankly I wouldn't want to meet her. She comes off as extremely nervous and hyper. But I have learned an awful lot from her about managing one's less attractive personality traits.
From my notes while studying this book for my MFA at Converse College, I copied: p. 96-97 "it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear the unbearable...that was heroic of her,...to refuse to pretend that you're doing well..."
Ruby wrote: "Frankly I wouldn't want to meet her. She comes off as extremely nervous and hyper. But I have learned an awful lot from her about managing one's less attractive personality traits."I would still want to meet her. That wouldn't really bother me. I'm not hyper, but I'd probably be a bit nervous, too!
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