

All New People
Author: Anne Lamott
Narrator: Karissa Vacker
Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 01/22/2019
Categories: Fiction, Women, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
Author: Anne Lamott
Narrator: Karissa Vacker
Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 01/22/2019
Categories: Fiction, Women, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
ANNE LAMOTT is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Bird by Bird; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
When I first started this book - during the first chapter or two, I thought I had made a mistake. Two mistakes, rather. The first mistake I thought I had made was choosing this book to read. Second, I thought I had prematurely declared my love for Anne Lamott after having only read Bird by Bird and......more
Catching up… I remember reading this many years ago. And now that it has been donated to my Little Free Library Shed, I have had the opportunity to re-visit it and bring my review to Goodreads. This is a short novel about a woman named Nanny who is working with a psychologist via hypnosis. Nanny is de......more
It annoys me that this is titled "a novel." First, because the detail is too endlessly personal (and the protagonists name too obviously a derivative of the author's) for this to be anything other than memoiric. And second, because NOTHING HAPPENS. I mean, it's brilliantly written and jam-packed wit......more
The pacing and overall content of the book deserves a two. However, I really did enjoy the author's style, realism and wit. In the end, I was left wanting as far as the plot goes. I needed more purpose to the story to keep me fully invested and interested.......more
More like 2.4. I liked much of her writing style. She was very into using the 5 senses to describe things. Some of those descriptions were very lovely. My issue was more with the story. It didn't go anywhere. It skipped a whole bunch of time that I was interested in reading about. That would have be......more