The world Tatiana came from and the world she came to are both foreign worlds to a regular British or American. There are different books about clouds, some for children, some for adults, some fiction, and some non-fiction. Not every observation or metaphor is terrible, and not all of the plot points are uninspired, and at least one of the three main characters is fairly interesting. There's the fact the protagonist has lived in Berlin five years and hasn't met anyone who sticks with her.

With a book like this, you bring a little bit of the vastness of the universe into your home for their little minds to comprehend.If you’ve decided you want to know more about clouds, picking up the right book is a great first step! The tone is brilliantly set from the opening paragraph: "It was an evening when the moral remains of the city bobbed up to the surface and floated like driftwood before sinking back down to the seabed to further splinter and rot. Nothing much happens in the relationship, just as nothing much happens at her job, but toward the end of the book there is a violent episode involving neo-Nazi punks that precipitates her departure from Berlin. I love Berlin, adore it, and I found myself mentally walking it's pathways whilst reading the book, finding myself in the grey shadow of the Fernsehturm or the more bohemian setting of Prenzlauer Berg. Needless to say, we were lucky to get out of the way of the swelling cumulus which seemed to be coming after us as we were about to be sucked in.

The sex scene is described in such exceedingly chaste terms that it appears the author was shy or uncomfortable writing it. Tatiana is alienated from her family and her friends, cut off from the rest of the city, uninterested in forming a relationship with anyone. Like WG Sebald reborn as a young woman, she walks the city streets: crossing Alexanderplatz, a hive of regeneration bristling with cranes; picking through the flea markets flooded with East German kitsch; enjoying the meditative "thought-ironing excursion" of the S-Bahn that swoops through the city, offering "old and new, logic and impulse, grit and glamour, all blurred into one long thread".

You get some incredible images from the Met Office’s archive along with the informative yet captivating text that keeps you hooked to the pages as you learn. This book explains why clouds are in the sky, all the different types that they can explore, and provides kids with fun activities that help them enjoy and celebrate being outdoors. Some books really focus on educating you about cloud formations and also how they relate to the weather while other books give you a sense of reprieve from day-to-day life within four walls.

Her Sundays are a wasteland of loneliness during which she takes long walks through the city; her weekdays, when she is not freezing in her unheated apartment, are spent transcribing the never-to-be-published notes of an elderly German-Jewish historian. He takes it further than understanding the science of clouds and explores the history, art, and pop culture surrounding clouds. Yet these moments also make it easy to forget at times that there is something more haunting Tatiana’s thoughts and experiences in Berlin—she is Jewish. D. in cloud physics and is known round the world as "The Cloudman" - introduces us to earth's great skyscape. All the major cloud types are discussed and illustrated, including clouds on other planets, as well as the increasing number of man-made clouds that fill our changeable skies.

memorable offbeat, engaging and compelling narrative with its wry intelligence and grasp of the darker fears of the imagination. A popular anthology of uplifting prose and poetry compiled exclusively for Rainbow Trust by Lady Glover.