Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott
Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott
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Help, Thanks, Wow
The Three Essential Prayers

Author: Anne Lamott

Narrator: Anne Lamott

Unabridged: 1 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/07/2019


Synopsis

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything

Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.

Listeners of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new audiobook, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals.

It is these three prayers – asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us – that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.

Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith audiobook that new Lamott listeners will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.

About The Author

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; StitchesSome Assembly RequiredGrace (Eventually)Plan BTraveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on April 02, 2020

This slim book consists of three essays on spirituality, each exploring a different type of prayer: petition ("Help!"), thanksgiving ("Thanks!") and ("Wow!), which I feel can best be described as prayer in praise of the sublime. I have read two previous books on spirituality by Lamott, both longer a......more

Goodreads review by Don on January 02, 2013

I am a tremendous admirer of Anne Lamott and her many books. I've been looking forward to reading this book for some weeks. Now that I have, I must say that I am disappointed. First, the book is way too expensive for the length that it is. And I am not even sure if it was worth being made into a har......more

Goodreads review by Karen on January 17, 2024

Lamott is witty and real when it comes to praying. To her it isn’t specifically looking outside oneself to find the answers needed… But… An opportunity to reflect. Her 3 prayers are her title of the book. And… When it comes to Prayer #1, “Help” she shares that it is simply… “Help. Help us walk through t......more

Goodreads review by Ellis on November 20, 2014

The older I get, the more I realize that I need something to have faith in. I find there’s really nothing like being raised Catholic for turning someone into an atheist, and for many years I indentified myself as one. In my 20s, I was content to say that I wasn’t scared of dying, convincing myself t......more

Goodreads review by Mimijo on January 07, 2013

I have read a lot of Anne Lamott and have always liked her hard-won spirituality, quirky worldview and writing style, her broadminded view of human nature - but this book didn't entirely do it for me, though I flagged some great quotes. It's awfully lite, that's my problem. And I have a quarrel with......more


Quotes

“[A] prayer manual for people who wouldn't be caught dead reading prayer manuals... anybody who gets it as a holiday gift will likely just say, 'Thanks. Wow.'” —Publishers Weekly

“A refreshingly simple approach to spiritual practice in a pint-sized reflection on prayer... Lamott manages to deftly convey the idea that in trying to control things, we've largely lost our ability to see the good and the miraculous in everyday life... there's more here than meets the eye.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Charmingly irreverent.” —MORE Magazine

“Filled with Lamott's unique brand of humor, wisdom and profound spiritual insight... She has a gift for putting into words what it means to accept and ultimately embrace the beauty, mystery, and pain that is life.” —San Antonio Express-News

“Practical and poetic advice on prayer.” —The Oregonian

“An imaginative do-it-yourself approach to spirituality...With a stand-up comic's snap and pop, candid and righteous Lamott tells hilarious and wrenching tales about various predicaments that have sparked her prayers and inspired her to encourage others to pray anytime, anywhere, and any way.” —Booklist