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Imperfect Birds
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
11 posts | 16 read | 1 reading | 8 to read
Anticipating a successful final year of high school in a new community, star student and athlete Rosie gives way to behaviors that reveal to her increasingly horrified parents that she has been abusing drugs and telling costly lies. By the author of Operating Instructions. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
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sherrisilvera
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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June's #bookspin has been on my shelf for so long. It is from a local indie (closed about 3 years ago) that @mrp27 and I visited back in the day.

@TheAromaofBooks

mrp27 Aww.. refresh my memory. What store? When did we go? 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 6mo
sherrisilvera @mrp27 one of the few trips to Book Revue 6mo
mrp27 Ah.. Still can‘t believe that store is gone. That was a favorite. (edited) 6mo
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mobill76
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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I think this is the first fiction of hers I've read. It was, as her non-fiction is, very personal but illustrative of much larger themes. I can't relate to much of Lamott's interests or expertise but she can distill the drama of her characters into truths of such clarity that I do find myself moved by her 'ordinary lives'. I'm not a drug addict but maybe I was addicted to a lifestyle and the woodlot is my wilderness rehab - that sort of thing.

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BookNAround
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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Someone remind me to replace my emergency car book since I started this one yesterday after ending up somewhere without a book and a longer than planned wait time.

DivineDiana Good advice! 🙂 3y
Soubhiville An emergency car book is such a smart idea! I‘m hooking myself up with one of those right away. Thank you! 3y
BookNAround @Soubhiville They‘ve saved my bacon more times than they should given how often I carry a book or two with me! 3y
Bookzombie This is a great idea! Now I‘m trying to decide what I want to stash in my car. 3y
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EricSwanson
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
Panpan

“Imperfect Birds” is a major disappointment from an author whose work, including the brilliant novel “Rosie,” I used to admire. There are some outstanding scenes here, but they are overshadowed by Lamott‘s reliance on New Age-type platitudes and appalling vulgarity

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mrs.stevens
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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So far so good! However I‘m officially terrified to have teenage children someday 🙈

AmyG Anne is amazing. As for teenagers...😳 5y
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monalyisha
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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Just stumbled across this lovely quote!

“I see them [librarians] as healers and magicians. Librarians can tease out of inarticulate individuals enough information about what they are after to lead them on to the path of connection. They are trail guides through the forest of shelves & aisles — you turn a person loose who has limited skills, & he‘ll be walloped by the branches. But librarians match up readers with the right books.“
-Anne Lamott

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Neverlistless
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
Bailedbailed

I had to return this one to the library, so... I still haven't finished an Anne Lamott book. Boo!

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pb47
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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pb47
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Neverlistless
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
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Starting my first Lamott tonight. It sounds like a difficult subject (the directions our children go), but I hope it's not as disturbing to me as the last book I tried to read!

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mmckale
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I guess the ending didn't satisfy me. But otherwise, exquisite, beautiful Lamott. Also, so excruciating, to think of all the ways in which my children might manipulate me in not so many years. I literally had nightmares. 5 🌟 #minibookreview

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