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[promiseofforeve]

"I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's -- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love -- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: 'Thank you.'"

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[invisiblealtars]

what is this...from a book...
if so...what are you reading?

[promiseofforeve]

It is from Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott. Apparently, everyone in the world has already read it.

It's really beautiful and real. I didn't want to go to sleep last night because I wanted to finish it. If you haven't read it, please do.

[uggamugga]

That's one of the dozen books that I started but, for one reason or another, never finished. It's on the list, though.

I'm actually reading another Anne Lammott book right now: "Rosie." Her fiction is pretty fun. It's easy to read and kind of trashy, but intelligent. Perfect pool-side read - which is exactly what I did today.

[promiseofforeve]

Yeah, that description "easy to read and kind of trashy" is how I would describe her fiction, too. I read "Blue Shoe" and after reading it I thought, "Well, I didn't get a single thing out of it, but it was sort of entertaining."

I'm liking her autobiographical stuff way more.