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Title: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0-449-90928-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (109 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful book!
Comment: My partner bought this book for me just days before our son was born. I read it during the idyllic yet anxious days following his birth. I admit that although I had heard of Anne Lamott, I had never read any of her work. I soon found that I'd been missing out! I am totally in awe of her writing ability and her unflinching honesty about the joys and difficulties of being a new parent. Another reviewer called her writing "self absorbed," but I would strongly disagree with that judgment. I believe it is a gift to know yourself as well as Anne Lamott obviously knows herself. It takes a great deal of courage to bare your soul to the world without fear or embarrassment as Ms. Lamott does in this book. If more people approached life with this kind of self-knowledge and honesty, I think we would all be a lot happier with each other and ourselves. This is a beautiful book, not just for new parents but for all parents. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Real life
Comment: Anne Lamott is truly one of the most gifted writers of our time. She is funny, true blue, strong, and opinionated, poignant, and totally, disarmingly honest. In Operating Instructions, she chronicles the first year of her son, Sam's life. This is much, much more than a journal. It's the unfolding of real, true life.
Three years after giving up her addictions to drugs and alcohol, Lamott found herself pregnant-and single-at 35. The struggles she encountered with her new baby are so real and honest. She describes her love for him one day as being a feeling larger than anything she can describe-then the next day, being overwhelmed with the urge to leave him on the porch all night where his colicky cries won't reach her ears. All the while, she struggles to keep on top of her addictions, struggles with her spirituality, with the fact that Sam has no father in his life, with the loss of her own father to brain cancer, with money, and with her strong and conflicting emotions about motherhood. Finally, her best friend of over 20 years falls gravely ill, something that nearly shatters Lamott's faith. But through it all, she stays true, beyond all else. She is an amazing writer and person.
If you are a mother or want to be a mother, this is a must-read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Five Star Mother
Comment: I absolutely loved this book!! It was so sweet, and yet so honest that you almost felt like you were going through the first year of motherhood with the author. Sam is a lucky little boy to have Anne for a mommy.
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Title: Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385496095 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385480016 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hard Laughter : A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0865472807 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1979 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rosie: A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0140264795 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Crooked Little Heart : A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385491808 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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