Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Sam Lamott

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

The Only Downside

to Operating Instructions: a Journal of My Son's First Year by the incredible Anne Lamott was that it was not read by the author. I almost stopped listening after hearing that she was not the narrator. But Rebecca Lowman did an excellent job. And the book was so good. Even for someone who has never been a mother. After reading this one, I wanted to learn more about Sam Lamott and I knew that even though I hadn't been a mom, I would still love it, since I loved that one and will never be a grandma!

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Even though

I will never be a mother or a grandmother, and even though I was hesitant to read Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son, I soon realized that one doesn't have to be a mother or grandmother or son, first or otherwise, or father to appreciate this beautiful and honest and heart-breaking book.
If I had already fallen in love with Sam Lamott just from what his mother has written about him in her other books, I would have fallen in love after reading this.