Comments on: Book Review: Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott

By: Book Review: Plan B, by Anne Lamott at Trying to follow

Book Review: Plan B, by Anne Lamott at Trying to follow — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:14:23 +0000

[...] stories of her life, ordinary stories, and not only make them engaging, but inspiring. When I read Traveling Mercies I closed it with a new found appreciation for the day to day experiences of my own life. Reading [...]

By: Nathan Ketsdever

Nathan Ketsdever — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:45:42 +0000

>>>“…such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”

Hilarious!!! I should read Traveling Mercies. I’m sure shes quite refreshing. I think she has about a dozen essays at Salon…although i don’t know how much they overlap with her book.
http://dir.salon.com/topics/anne_lamott/

In sharp contrast, I found her interview with Stephen Colbert to be a tad too hyper-multicultural.

By: adria

adria — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:38 +0000

the quote about drinking gin straight out of the cat dish was one of my favorites when i read through it. good stuff. i don’t think i will ever reach that level of honesty in my writing. but i like it nontheless.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:40:49 +0000

sounds like a good read

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:32:33 +0000

My mom just mailed the book to me, so yay! I bet I’m going to enjoy it.

Lamott wrote a great book about writing called Bird by Bird. I highly recommend it, along with Carolyn See’s Creating a Literary Life and Stephen King’s On Writing.