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Title	:	Blue Shoe
Author	:	Anne Lamott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 2003 by Riverhead Books (first published September 30th 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary

Blue Shoe

Anne Lamott

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.26 | 7299 Users | 720 Reviews

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

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This is the kind of book that makes you think the publisher's assistant mistakenly sent a draft to the printer rather than the final manuscript. The characters are boring, the story just trundles along, there are random religious references, descriptions of some characters are clear, others not so, and the 'blue shoe' that the title refers to is a benign child's toy which plays an inexplicable role in the main character's psyche. The book reminded me of a writing assignment that someone would

I wanted to like this book club selection but I found it too depressing and boring to finish. Here are a few comments from what I did read.Mattie Ryder is recently divorced with two young children. Somehow she makes a living from modeling size 12 clothing for Sears? She's depressed from her divorce, and ruminates about her family, her children, and her friends. She sleepwalks through life, and the story plods along without much happening. When she finds a little blue shoe her father owned, the

Okay, "didn't like it" is as bad as Goodreads gets, but believe me, I looked for a "hated it" button. I really HATED it! Mattie, the main character, is awful - self obsessed, but lacking any self awareness. A terrible friend, an awful mother, a lousy daughter - Mattie runs the gamut. Constantly praying (but virtually always just for herself - please, please, God, let my friend's husband leave her for me, etc.) and nearly constantly whining, Mattie is the most selfish character I have seen in

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

Many times while reading this book I asked myself why I didn't just stop and start something I might like better. As it was recommended by a friend, I remained hopeful that there would be some redeeming value to the story. Please--at least give me protagonist that exemplifies some values and good judgment or at least learns something in the end. Lamott's lead character of choice starts right off with sleeping back and forth with her ex-husband (who is in a relationship with a pregnant

I enjoyed this book. I moved through it, riding the emotional ebbs & tides it's characters created, filled with sorrow & erupting with laughter. It was hauntingly familiar. As I read it kept bringing back moments of Anne Lamott's own life as if excerpts from her memoirs in new flesh. As with Anne's writing the truth comes to you frankly and you take it as it is. That's how these character's lives are laid bare, in all their shame & all their joy, they are made awkwardly &

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