It’s here! It’s here! The 12 Days of Books are here!
The 12 Days of Books at thewriteteachers.com is an annual Christmas and Holiday tradition – where we list 12 books to read in the upcoming holiday season and year!
First up – Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, by Anne Lamott.
Currently, I’m “reading” the audiobook – and it’s FABULOUS.
Here’s the official blurb:
“I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen,” Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest – when we are, as she puts it, “doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated” – the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. “All truth is a paradox,” Lamott writes, “and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change.” That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but “to do what Wendell Berry wrote: ‘Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'”
In this profound and funny audiobook, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life’s essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.
Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the audiobook we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.
Here’s what I say thus far:
It’s water to your parched soul. It’s a beautiful, wonderful, lovely read – and I’m not even finished yet! Order yours here.
If you’re reading along with us this season, be sure to tag your book photos with #12DaysOfBooks!
Happy Reading!
Live, Love, Learn,