Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Riverhead Trade - Riverhead Trade
Release date: 2008-02-26
Paperback
Author: Anne Lamott
Theology (General), Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Biography/Autobiography, Literary, Religion / General, Religious, Women, 20th century, Biography, Christian biography, Faith, Novelists, American, United States
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Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Date undefinedI fell for the title and the cover art while browsing the $5 book table at Walgreen's. After slogging through the first part of the book, I realized the only thing this gal worships is herself. The book went into the trash.
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Date undefined"Grace (Eventually)" is an interesting memoir of Marin County author Ann Lamott. She documents her everyday struggles of alcoholism, being a single mother, teaching the handicapped to dance, and facing mortality. Her "Thoughts on Faith" range from boring Nature meditations to more compelling ones about saving the Salinas Library.
"Grace (Eventually)" is,oddly,more thought-provoking,and controversial,when Lamott defends her two abortions (when she was an alcoholic) and euthanizing a friend with a morphine/applesauce mix. Of course, she rants against Dubya,saying that it will take millennia for the Earth to heal from his despoliation. She's most alive when she denounces Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld,and tries to have Christian charity for them. She protests on behalf of the Salinas Library, and at a peace rally--these are more lively than her watching her dog run around the Marin headlands. Politics IS her faith. In "The Born",she vividly describes chowing down on M&Ms while defending the "common sense and equality" of abortion,claiming that Roe v. Wade "righted and redeemed lives." In "At Death's Window",she is passionate in defending euthanasia.
"Grace (Eventually)" is,at its best,controversial and thought-provoking,even for those who wouldn't agree. At its worst,it's merely dull. One finds grace... eventually.
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Date undefinedI bought this in the airport on a long layover and threw it away 4 chapters in. What I thought would be a nice book about how everyone finds their own faith and grace, was sort of about faith, but I couldn't get past her political hatred.....who cares, this was supposed to be about finding grace, not how she hates George Bush. I found it too distracting, definitely not what I thought it would be.
