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Operating Instructions (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

By: Anne Lamott
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books
ISBN: 044990928X
ISBN-13: 9780449909287
Released: 01 Sep 1998
RRP: £8.74
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Hmmmm - By: , 25 Oct 2005
This was an alternately interesting & irritating read. Ann Lamott is a sensitive & honest chronicler of her own life, & her situation as a single, unorthodox type of woman was interesting. Her baby is much like most other babies - he does alll the usual excretory activities, he screams like crazy & sometimes she loves him more than she can bear & other times, she cannot work out what to do with him. But I'm afraid her encounters with her therapist just made me shake my head & wonder why some people have to over-analyse the stuff that happens not just to them but to alll of us.

God features a good deal in this book as Ann Lamott is a committed liberal Christian, & a politicised woman - what I found heartbreaking was that she wrote Operating Instructions at the time of Bush I's Desert Storm fiasco - it seems that in the intervening 15 years, little has changed.

That said, it is an interesting take on the early stages of motherhood.

Sheer loveliness - By: , 01 Nov 2004
I didn't keep a diary when my son was born, & I regret that. But this fabulous book brought it alll back.

Mums, old & new - this is a must-read book.

I laughed out loud a thousand times, & often had to wait for my eyes to clear of tears before I could read on.

Anne, you're an AMAZING author. I've also read "Bird by Bird" & loved that too.