![]() ![]() ![]() And these are things you learn only by reading her timing is hardly mentioned in the book at all.Īll this sounds very earnest, which is perverse and willful of me because Lamott is anything but earnest. She plays a reader’s emotions by carefully balancing the funny with the desperate, so you never ever feel scared reading her work, even if you know that she is one of the most terrified people alive (she tells us all the time) and even if you’re weeping like a madwoman. It is never, never boring (a serious contribution with a book about writing). Her language is simple, clear, beautiful, sometimes odd (words like keen and mewling), and always crackling. Above all else, she has impeccable timing. Lamott’s writing has always been about real, important things: a dying parent, raising a child alone, being a good friend. ![]()
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