A review by nixieknox
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son by Sam Lamott, Anne Lamott

3.0

I'm always surprised at how much I like Anne Lamott's books. Every time I start one, fiction or memoir, I think "well this will be the one that turns me off", but she never lets me down. Which is strange, because she's very spiritual, also religious, sober, way into having this sprawling honorary family, and naval gazing in ways that I am so, so not. But she really speaks to something in me that makes me love reading her stuff.

My main criticism of this one was that the interviews she had with Sam (her son) about Jax (Sam's infant son) were super-precocious. Anyone who talks about or to their kid like those two do need to, I don't know, go work retail for a little while. Way too much thought into the minutia of life.

But really, I liked it!