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A review by jjp723
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott
4.0
3.5 Stars.
I love Anne Lamott but I think maybe I've read too much of her in too short of a time as the last couple, including this one, just didn't *speak* to me the way others have. One problem I have noticed is that altho she is addressing anxiety and how to deal with it, reading her often makes me anxious; I don't know if it is that in the past couple of books she has written so much about her dysfunctional family, often to repetitiveness, but for some reason it does. That being said, I still had lots of little scraps of paper marking passages that I wanted to remember!
*We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change.*
*Don't let others make you feel unsophisticated if you reach middle age preferring Hershey's Kisses.*
*Eventually one has to find a way to eat and be kind to one's body. I am not a metaphysician, but this is the body you're going to have the entire time you are here.
...Can you also put away your tight pants, the ones that actually hurt you? Wear forgiving pants! The world is too hard as it is without letting tight pants have an opinion on how you are doing, and make it clear that they are disappointed in you.*
*I mostly gave up trying to get my uncle to be one of those people you miss so much when they die.*
I love Anne Lamott but I think maybe I've read too much of her in too short of a time as the last couple, including this one, just didn't *speak* to me the way others have. One problem I have noticed is that altho she is addressing anxiety and how to deal with it, reading her often makes me anxious; I don't know if it is that in the past couple of books she has written so much about her dysfunctional family, often to repetitiveness, but for some reason it does. That being said, I still had lots of little scraps of paper marking passages that I wanted to remember!
*We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change.*
*Don't let others make you feel unsophisticated if you reach middle age preferring Hershey's Kisses.*
*Eventually one has to find a way to eat and be kind to one's body. I am not a metaphysician, but this is the body you're going to have the entire time you are here.
...Can you also put away your tight pants, the ones that actually hurt you? Wear forgiving pants! The world is too hard as it is without letting tight pants have an opinion on how you are doing, and make it clear that they are disappointed in you.*
*I mostly gave up trying to get my uncle to be one of those people you miss so much when they die.*