Today, May 4th, is the fourth discussion question for the Beyond Busy Global Monthly Book Club. We just finished Anne Lamott’s Some Assembly Required, A Journal of My Son’s First Son and now we will spend seven days discussing it. Anyone who has read the book can participate by commenting.
Our next book selection is the hot-off-the-presses Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel. You can join our public BBGMBC Facebook group, if you would like to join us in reading one excellent quality book per month and then discussing it here.
Some Assembly Required, A Journal of My Son’s First Son is written by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott and published by Riverhead in 2012.
Some authors travel and dive deeply into descriptions of place and history. Anne Lamott travels and dives into more stories of connections: family connections, friendships, mentor relationships, and even, and perhaps most bravely, reflections on and relationships with people who are dying.
Lamott writes most deeply and most fearlessly about the truth about her relationships. Not relationships hypothetically, but real, live, messy, complicated relationships.
Is the map of real life relationships a topic as compelling and engaging as travelogue? Why or why not?
