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Hallelujah Anyway

Rediscovering Mercy

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Hallelujah Anyway

By: Anne Lamott
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The New York Times best seller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it.

"Mercy is radical kindness", Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others - and yourself - to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult.

In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves". It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere - "within us and outside us, all around us" - and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all".

Full of Lamott’s trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise - a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.

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Critic reviews

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” (Chicago Tribune)

“This is trademark Lamott - theological speculation, hippie slang and domestic comedy, C.S. Lewis by way of Janis Joplin by way of Erma Bombeck.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“Every writer, truth-seeker, parent, and activist I know is in love with one or more books by Anne Lamott...she writes as naturally as she breathes, she explores the mysterious paths and detours of life itself, and she reports back to make the way ahead easier for all of us.... I keep learning a lot from the clear and great Annie Lamott. I think you will, too." (Gloria Steinem)
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Normally I love Anne Lamott’s books. This one just didn’t hit me as positively as her others. Usually I am moved and inspired by her work. It is also very funny. In this book I don’t know whether it was too derivative of other things of hers that I have read, but somehow it seemed more tired and mean spirited than usual.

Not my fave Lamott

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Once again and Lamont has put into words the things that I needed to understand and didn’t know I needed. Thank you

Cool water on a hot day. A moment of shade.

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Anne Lamott is so amazing in her thinking. And she teaches you to forgive and love yourself and have mercy. The humor is welcome.

Didn't want it to end.

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Anne lamott has a gorgeous way with with words. I was expecting more of a learning life experience than poetry. i loved help thanks wow

beautiful writing. more poetry than I wanted

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Thankfully I like Anne's voice. But no inflection or feeling in the narration. Monotone read & can turn you off from finishing but please do. There are gems in here.

Insightful Material, Voice can lull you to Sleep

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Anne Lamott is one if my all-time favorite writers because she has a gift of describing everyday events of life and making them relevant to all. She makes me laugh out loud. She makes me cry. This book is full of mercy, hope and joy.

Hallelujah for Anne Lamott

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Like everything Anne Lamont writes, this book is brilliant. I find a great deal of comfort in her words of wisdom.

Another Home Run

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I loved this book. Very beautifully written with themes that stretch deep into he heart of the human condition.

Beautiful story of mercy, love, & transformation

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No one like this author AL !
Love this audio version so much.
I look forward to my third listen
of this authentic author who
speaks and writes as if she knows me !

2 nd Listen !

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Overflowing with wisdom, heart, and well-earned experience. I believe authors should all narrate their own work, so long as they can still speak.

Grateful For Anne Lamott

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