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Blue Shoe

Anne Lamott

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.26 | 7299 Users | 720 Reviews

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Title	:	Blue Shoe
Author	:	Anne Lamott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 2003 by Riverhead Books (first published September 30th 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary

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The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies.

Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe—nothing more than a gumball trinket—left behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talisman—a chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.

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Original Title:	Blue Shoe
ISBN:	1573223425 (ISBN13: 9781573223423)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.26 From 7299 Users | 720 Reviews

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Oh my, oh my, oh my! I really don't know what to say about this book except ... oh my, oh my, oh my!Anne Lamott is such an incredibly talented and honest writer, but this is a big unwieldy mess of a book. There are little gems in the writing, in the characterizations, and in the telling of this novel, which saves it, for me, from an "I hated it" rating. The problem is that it tackles too many storylines and ultimately doesn't do any of them justice. In the laundry list of conflicting narratives,

I'm torn. Anne can keep a story moving -- start reading and WHOOSH I'm caught up in it. Many of her characters are Christians and my problem isn't that they aren't the "right kind" of Christian (as if such a thing exists!) but that there is such a blatant disregard for some of the core beliefs. A little struggle with it, that's all I'm asking. Instead part of it has such a "I'm so cool, look at me, don't you want to be a Christian like me and not have those stuffy beliefs interfer with areas I

Ask yourself a question. When you watch reruns of old SNL sketches, do you think that the churchlady bit isn't funny, and that the church lady just makes sense? Do you, further, judge people who make any mistake or are ever inconsistent? If so, you will not like this book, because you are a horrible person incapable of real human emotions.For the rest of us, however, Anne Lamott has made a marvelous, charming novel about life, death, acceptance and family, with plenty of other things handled

Blue Shoe was exactly OK. While there are some very lovely passages and I occasionally found myself pulled in to the plot, on the whole the book failed to capture my interest or elicit sympathy from me. The lead character Mattie changes moods so often it's hard to follow or relate to her. One second she's praying to Jesus and the next thinking about pouring Drano on top of her son's iguana. I understand this is a story about a woman in the midst of a crisis (or many, though each very "first

Many times while reading this book I asked myself why I didn't just stop and start something I might like better. As it was recommended by a friend, I remained hopeful that there would be some redeeming value to the story. Please--at least give me protagonist that exemplifies some values and good judgment or at least learns something in the end. Lamott's lead character of choice starts right off with sleeping back and forth with her ex-husband (who is in a relationship with a pregnant

I wanted to like this book club selection but I found it too depressing and boring to finish. Here are a few comments from what I did read.Mattie Ryder is recently divorced with two young children. Somehow she makes a living from modeling size 12 clothing for Sears? She's depressed from her divorce, and ruminates about her family, her children, and her friends. She sleepwalks through life, and the story plods along without much happening. When she finds a little blue shoe her father owned, the

I bought this book to read with my book club. I probably would not have chosen it on my own.This is the first book by Anne Lamott I read - or I should say ATTEMPTED to read. And it will be my last. I absolutely hated this book. I'm an avid reader, and I can not remember the last time I started a book and didn't finish it. Normally, I feel compelled to read a book to the end, even if I don't like it, thinking there must be something redeeming about it. I kept pushing myself to finish this one,