Crooked Little Heart: A Novel by Anne Lamott
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Book Reviews of Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
Book Review: Insightful look at adolescence and loss
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book and am recommending it to my friends. I found her descriptions of adolescence right on, and enjoyed a look at marriage and motherhood that didn't feature a picture-perfect heroine, but a real woman struggling with problems of addiction, grief and marriage and motherhood.Book Review: Warm and fuzzy, good escapist read with excellent writing
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this after seeing "The Horse Whisperer" (which I did not read). After watching mother and teenage daughter interact on screen, I wanted more of the same and got it in "Crooked Little Heart." I didn't have this kind of warm cuddly relationship with my mother, so I love reading about one even though I found it just a bit over the top. All that hugging, crying, feet rubbing and lying in bed together! Does that really happen or only in California? Oh, well, I bought it for a quick, involving read with good writing and that's what I got.Book Review: A poor introduction to Anne Lamott
Summary: 1 Stars
I decided to read this book because I have read much critical parise of Ms. Lamott's other books and I am a fan of "coming of age" stories. This was an unfortunate introduction to Ms. Lamott's writing. I found the novel heavy handed and repetitive. In this novel, Ms. Lamott too often uses repeated (ad nauseum) physical descriptions (e.g., Rosie is gangly and pigeon toed) of her characters as a substitute for character development. If the characters were fully developed we would not have to be hit over the head with repeated descriptions for them to be remebered and live in our minds.Book Review: Made Me feel LiKe Going to An A. A. Meeting
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved Operating Instructions, I loved Bird By Bird, I'm even ready to visit her church that she invites anyone to go to at the end of Crooked Little Heart...and it was a good story, but blech..if I had to read ONE MORE TIME about Rosie's gangly coltish puppy warm budding womanhood and Simone's ruby fleshy sexuality I think I'll yak. It was just too much clever descriptions and not enough compelling story. made me feel like I was at an AA meeting.Book Review: Oh well...everyone has an off day sometimes.
Summary: 3 Stars
I held off on reading this latest book by Anne Lamott because I loved the anticipation of yet another delicious dive into the world she creates on paper. I relished the vibrancy of Rosie, which I read several years ago and looked forward to more of the same in Crooked Little Heart. Unfortunately, this doesn't feel like a sequel.....in Rosie everything and everyone was immediate and engaging. This book feels like it was written underwater and is keeping all the delectable characters at arms length with lengthy and unfocused prose. Like I said, everyone has an off day and I will keep reading everything Lamott writes....but I felt sad that the people I met in Rosie never resurfaced in this volume.