Project 7767 revisited

Of the books listed below, I have either given up on them or still intend to read them. I have (obviously) decided that this project is not of tantamount importance and as such, will just move on. In a few subsequent posts I will give a short review of what I did read. And from here on out, I'll talk about what I'm reading. Or whatever suits me.

And onward to the things that I chose to give up on:
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx  (The sentence structure made me seriously annoyed. And the main character seemed flat and childlike.)
Dry by Augusten Burroughs  (I just couldn't. I don't know why I thought a memoir based around alcoholism would be interesting to me.)
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan  (This is not my thing. It is difficult to explain, but I just knew. And I will not read 13 books hoping to like them at some point. No.)

Things I still intend to read:
The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno  (414)
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen  (1103)
Stories: All-New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio  (423)
A box set of twelve plays by Shakespeare (1072)
The Gathering by Ann Enright  (261)

Faithfully Funny

I love Ann Lamott.  You learn about faith and grace just by listening to her life.  She has not had an easy time of things, with drug addiction and poor relationship choices. But she found a way to come out of that, and to believe in God, surprisingly enough.  I appreciated the tendency to make things into a comedy, rather than a tragedy. She has good ideas, and is just liberal enough that I don't feel as though she is preaching at me to be holy like her. To be honest, it feels as though she doesn't see herself as holy at all.

I wonder whether the intention of being in the presence of holiness is enough to get a little to rub off on you. If so, it seems to work for her.