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Somehow: Thoughts on Love | Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott is my Oprah. Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love Love is our only hope, Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks. In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. Love just won't be pinned down, she says. It is in our very atmosphere and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love. In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises. Somehow is Anne Lamotts twentieth book, and in it she draws from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate and elemental ways that love buttresses us in the face of despair as it galvanizes us to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. Full of the compassion and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Somehow is classic Anne Lamott: funny, warm, and wise.
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Christine
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I will always read and love Anne Lamott. This one was delightfully all over the place, as is her way, and, as is also her way, full of humor and honest self-reflection (including about her foibles and mistakes) and nuanced thoughts on religion that make me revisit my own baggage and rethink my related assumptions.

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UwannaPublishme
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I always feel better about life when I read Anne Lamott‘s beautifully crafted words. She‘s “a woman of faith and crazy optimism,” and struggles like us trying to make sense of the crazy world we live in. This time Anne gives us profound stories centered around love. Her chapter on community made me appreciate Litsy and our #LitsyLove group even more. “Love is nearby…if you know what to look for. Love is always there for the asking…always…somehow.”

UwannaPublishme #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks Photo from Anne Lamott‘s Instagram page 4mo
AmyG I adore Anne, too. She always gives me hope during tough times. 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 4mo
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4mo
UwannaPublishme @AmyG Totally agree! 🙌🏻 I found myself going back and rereading several chapters. I wanted to take it all in. 4mo
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goodbyefrancie
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How would I describe this book so far?

Necessary.

Anne Lamott is a gift. ❤️

AmyG I love Anne. 5mo
UwannaPublishme Yay! I‘m waiting for my hold on this one. Anne Rocks! 🙌🏻 5mo
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Suet624
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My daughter-in-law‘s mother knows how much I love Anne‘s writing and sent me this book. I‘ve read her books ever since she wrote Operating Instructions (a brilliant book if you haven‘t read it) and I go to hear her speak whenever she‘s close by.

BarbaraBB I don‘t know her, and will change that! 5mo
UwannaPublishme Love Anne too! 🙌🏻 I‘m looking forward to reading this one. 5mo
quietlycuriouskate I heard her talking about this just yesterday, on Elise Loehnen's "Pulling the Thread" podcast. 5mo
goodbyefrancie Seeing her tonight, and I'm so excited! 5mo
Suet624 @goodbyefrancie that's wonderful! Enjoy! She's a delight and an inspiration. 5mo
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ChrisBohjalian
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Bedtime reading. Good-night.

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UwannaPublishme
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So excited that the ever-inspiring author Anne Lamott has a new book (her 20th!) releasing April 9th, the day before her 70th birthday. Woo hoo! 🙌🏻
(FYI to anyone in the San Diego area: #Warwick‘s bookstore is hosting a live event with Anne in Point Loma on April 15)

kspenmoll I just love her & all her books! 8mo
UwannaPublishme @kspenmoll Amen to that! 🙌🏻 8mo
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