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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by: Anne Lamott

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781573222990
ISBN: 1573222992
Label: Riverhead Hardcover
Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: March 03, 2005
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Release Date: March 03, 2005
Sales Rank: 237774
Studio: Riverhead Hardcover

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With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.

The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago. Terrorism and war have become the new normal; environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on Lamott's faith as well: turning fifty; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time.

Fortunately for those of us who are anxious and scared about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort, and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.

Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It will prove to be further evidence that, as The Christian Science Monitor has written, 'Everybody loves Anne Lamott.'

Amazon.com Review:
Few people can write about faith, parenting, and relationships as can the talented, irreverent Anne Lamott. With characteristic black humor, ('Everyone has been having a hard time with life this year; not with all of it, just the waking hours') she updates us on the ongoing mayhem of her life since Traveling Mercies, and continues to unfold her spiritual journey.

Plan B finds Lamott wrestling with mid-life hormones and weight gain while parenting Sam, now a teenager with his own set of raging hormones. Her observations cover everything from starting a Sunday school to grief over the death of her beloved dog, Sadie; lamenting the war to bitterness over her relationship with her now-departed mother.

As she tugs and pokes out the knots in a slender gold chain necklace, it becomes a metaphor for letting go and learning to forgive. '…any willingness to let go inevitably comes from pain; and the desire to change changes you, and jiggles the spirit, gets to it somehow, to the deepest, hardest, most ruined parts.' Its her willingness to show us the knotted-up, 'ruined parts' of her life that make this collection of sometimes uneven essays so compelling.

'Everything feels crazy,' writes Lamott, adding, 'But on small patches of earth all over, I can see just as much messy mercy and grace as ever….' Lamotts essays will serve as reminders to readers of the patches of messy mercy and grace in a chaotic world.--Cindy Crosby

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- Brainless Liberals are like roaches!
Another of the many sad and witless critics of a real President: George W.Bush.
These people have no clue about the real world and how it works.
They have no respect for the thousands who fought and died for the USA.
They would sell their birthright for a mess of angry rubbish.
GW Bush might as well be the modern Jesus - scapegoat of the common crowd.
Tory West

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- Laugh yourself silly and be touched deeply
The humor and insights into spiritual and messy real life will simply make you feel better about yourself. Anne is a gifted writer and I have enjoyed reading this as well as listening to her read it as a recording. Great to listen to on a road trip!

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- A welcome rehash...
I liked this a lot, but there's not a lot of new meat here for Lamott fans who have read a lot of her other books and internet columns...it's all here, but sort of in a reheated fashion. Checking in with Anne and Sam does feel like visiting old friends, though, but I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.

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- False faith
I used to love Lamott's writing, but this will probably be the last of her books that I buy. I was extremely disappointed in the underlying tone of bitterness and resentment. If she is truly a Christian, where is the joy? Her take on Christianity is superficial and false. She writes, "But in any case, we should try to stay on God's good side. It's not hard. God has extremely low standards. Pray, take care of people, be actively grateful for your blessings, give away your money--you're cool. You're in. Nice room in heaven, flossing no longer required--which is what will make it heaven for me. Oh, I mean that, and Jesus." Her ideas about God and Jesus are more cultural than biblical.

Lamott's rantings about George Bush and war in Iraq should have been omitted. We can hear that for free on CNN. Who wants to pay for that kind of drivel? She should not write when she is in a really bad mood.

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