Weather: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION: A Novel

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I did like her last novel, Department of Speculation. I gave that a B+ before I joined Goodreads and adopted this rating system. A turtle was mugged by a gang of snails. The police came to take a report, but (the turtle) couldn’t help them. ‘It all happened so fast,’ he said.” A white sunshade was held over me day and night so that no cold or heat or dust or grit or dew might inconvenience me. I really want this book to work for me. After I read her last one, which I found forgettable, I would hear women slightly younger than me glow on about it on podcasts, best read of the last decade, etc. It just didn't have that impact on me. I was looking forward to this one because of the librarian aspect but it turns out - not actually a librarian. And yes this is the hill I will die on. Winter is a magical time of year, and it's a wonderful theme to explore with young children. With the nights drawing in and the temperature dropping, it's the perfect time of year to enjoy cuddling up with a good book to enjoy a winter tale.

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i mean, it's not foreshadowing, this isn't chekhov's gum gag or anything, but many of the book's short paragraphs could stand alone as prose poems, building emotional weight, meaning more than their simplicity appears, hindsight and subtext and yadda, oh my. This book belongs in pre-schools and homes. Maybe it will encourage some future scientists and meteorologists!Jordan, Justine (28 November 2020). "Best fiction of 2020". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 January 2021. Should we get a gun, Ben asks? But it's America. You don't even get on the news if you shoot less than three people". There is a small chance that roads, bridges and railway lines could close, with delays and cancellations to bus, train, ferry services and flights

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Lizzie’s marriage falters a little – due to her excessive involvement (at one stage she takes an “enmeshment” test) with the life of her addict brother, which takes a more dramatic turn as he struggles with being a new-father. Her insistence on taking on the burden of her brother, is I think reflected in her views on climate change – taking on the burdens of the human race.I even became a bit restless from Lizzie her voice and her thoughts about doomsday prepping, that is something I need to credit the author for. Not to say that her commentary on hipsters and tiger moms are not at times funny, but I think this has been done before, and more scathingly as well. Author Jenny Offill’s third novel, “Weather”, isn’t for the average reader. She has written a novel that comprises mostly fleeting thoughts and moments. There isn’t much structure with the exception of time. I guess 1-star is going to seem mean spirited, however if 2-stars is defined as "it was ok" then I find myself thinking, well no, this was not "ok". Things started out hopefully enough, there are some funny little snippets here and there, but then either the text unravelled or my patience did. This Winter Book List contains a lovely selection of fiction and non-fiction books as well as suggestions of board books for younger children that can be used during a topic about Winter. Kelly, Hillary (13 February 2020). "Jenny Offill Wrote the Perfect Worry Novel". Vulture. Vulture . Retrieved 6 January 2021.

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Weather is sometimes so sparse I have no idea where the main character was or from where her musings come from. I don't think this is a bad book at all, I want to make that clear right away. I think Jenny Offill is a talented writer, and that she achieves everything she set out to achieve with this little book, a potent commentary on the impossibility of balancing every day domesticity with encroaching anxiety about the climate crisis. As well as inspiring you to take a deeper look at the sky above us and at our changing climate, this book will teach you new facts about weather and climate, and record-breaking statistics to really upgrade your weather small-talk. This book includes a lot of information that is presented clearly and simply. Young children will learn about daily weather, seasons, wind, cloud types, rain, snow and much more.I can see this working in a 1st grade weather unit too (I know some 1st grade rooms that do that:). However whereas Ellmann has a comprehensive, all-inclusive, stream-of-consciousness style, representing the narrator’s though process, with nothing edited or filtered; by contrast Offill’s style is all about the filter and edit – it is a book which has been edited down to almost nothing, where much of the action takes place in the spaces between paragraphs.