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

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	:	First 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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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,

Her nonfiction is better. SummarySingle mom Mattie has moved into her familys old home with her kids Ella and Harry. She grew up here with father Alfred, now dead; mother Isa; and brother Al, now married to Katherine. She makes improvements on the house and property which bring her into contact with Daniel, who worked one day for a pest control company. Mattie and Daniel become best friends, attending church together, to the dismay of Daniels beautiful wife, Pauline. Mattie is secretly in love

I pretty much trudged through the book waiting for it to get interesting. It felt like I was sleep walking through someone's dysfunctional life, someone who I had little interest in. I kept waiting for the "blue shoe" to become significant and revealing. I could see potential in the story but it just never seemed to come together so that the reader cared about the story.

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,

Maybe I just like Lamott's nonfiction better than her fiction. Maybe I had to pick it up and put it down too many times without enough long stretches of time to "get into it." My two complaints: disjointed narrative and more of a focus on turning pretty phrases than moving the plot forward. Once I DID get to sit down with it for longer stretches of time and the plot seemed to move forward more toward the end, I ended up liking it better. I'm having trouble with these "weak" women I read

I wanted to like this book. It seems as though the author didn't herself have kids or else just didn't get it, because every part that had to do with the woman and her children seemed so off the reservation for me it just made the whole story completely unbelievable and contrived. Also the whole religion thing was not entirely consistent either with the woman's behavior or attitudes towards others, like she went to church with earphones on.

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