I'm not a mom but I like to think of myself as bookish, liberalish and thoughfulish and Anne Lamott has always been as little out there for me. You know who likes her a lot? MM. Bizarre.
I'm not a recovering alcoholic, nor am I a Christian, but something about her style, her brutal honesty, really clicks with me. I don't like her fiction nearly as much as her nonfiction, but I almost always find something that resonates with me in her nonfiction work.
Operating Instructions was funny; Red Shoes or Blue Shoes or whatever was Marin domestic realism; couldn't go near Bird by Bird (seems like a pyramid scheme - write a book about writing to inspire other people to write books about writing); want to support the AA and religious stuff but can't work up the interest.
When it comes to ex-drinking memoirs, I much prefer Caroline Knapp's "Drinking, a Love Story."
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probably not, though *Operating Instructions* came along at just the right time for me. And I still like *Bird by Bird* as a writing guide.
I'm not a mom but I like to think of myself as bookish, liberalish and thoughfulish and Anne Lamott has always been as little out there for me. You know who likes her a lot? MM. Bizarre.
I was with her until we got to the born-again love-everyone God-is-the-answer stuff. I haven't read her stuff since.
I think a lot of her stuff makes sense to people who are recovering alcoholics, etc., since that's where she's coming from.
I'm not a recovering alcoholic, nor am I a Christian, but something about her style, her brutal honesty, really clicks with me. I don't like her fiction nearly as much as her nonfiction, but I almost always find something that resonates with me in her nonfiction work.
Operating Instructions was funny; Red Shoes or Blue Shoes or whatever was Marin domestic realism; couldn't go near Bird by Bird (seems like a pyramid scheme - write a book about writing to inspire other people to write books about writing); want to support the AA and religious stuff but can't work up the interest.
When it comes to ex-drinking memoirs, I much prefer Caroline Knapp's "Drinking, a Love Story."
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