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

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I let my brother choose the movie for once, but then it’s so stupid I can barely watch it. In the movies he likes there is always some great disaster about to happen and only one unlikely person who can stop it.” I was disappointed to see a statement about the sun being 4.5 billion years old. There's no scientific evidence of that. It's a theory, but it's presented in this book as fact. It's misinformation like this which promote fallacies into becoming public knowledge. Other than that, all the other information appears to be correct. When one reads as many book as I do, the search for something different but good, is ongoing. This author seems to fill the bill. She takes the reader inside the thoughts of a young woman, Lizzie, who is juggling many of life's trials. She is a mother, a wife, tried to take care of her mother, and her brother who has had a problem with drugs. Additionally, the doomsday prediction with the climate and the unfriendly political situation, also preys on her mind. She works in a university library, sans degree, due to the help of her mentor, and has been convinced to answer letters by said mentor, with a podcast called, Hell or high water. She is a very busy, too busy, young woman. She is also a character that is very relateable.

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. You probably want to know, what’s the thread? The thread is Librarian Lizzie’s life as a wife, mother, professional letter writer, and helper of her brother, who is trying to stay clean. Amid all of this, we’re a fly on the wall of her head, hearing her musings. Her head goes everywhere—from thinking about normal activities in her family to bemoaning the scary shape of our planet. There are random thoughts and facts, observations on life, even a few jokes. It sort of seemed like a well-thought-out journal. Lizzie is concerned, but she doesn’t go off the deep end—that would be a whole different book. Instead, her mind is just plain lively, her thoughts irresistible. Lizzie’s flaws and her empathy draw us close to her, and in many ways this is a book about how the mind of a sensitive, astute underachiever sustains itself in a time of political and environmental crisis. References to “preppers” and deep ecology, as well as glancing allusions to the 2016 election, are scattered throughout the novel. Lizzie has agreed to serve as an assistant to her old grad school mentor, Sylvia, who hosts a doom-forecasting podcast about climate change called Hell or High Water. When she tells her mentor that she wants to move her son and niece “somewhere colder” in pursuit of safety, Sylvia’s rejoinder is both cutting and fatalistic: 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.

Weather by Jenny Offill review – wit for the end times

This book is very much in the style of Dept. of Speculation – which I described in my review of that book as an elliptical and aphoristic style. It goes through all the seasons and teaches about what to expect during what weather. Is the sun shining today? Put on your coolest shades!There's even a bit of science to explain how rain works, why thunderstorms happen and more! Look outside after a thunderstorm and you might see a rainbow.The illustrations are so much fun - vibrant, colorful and exciting. I loved the variety of characters present and bold style! Jenny Offill describes what it feels like to live in today's America, she writes about the political and social weather, the charged atmosphere that has enveloped the nation. Her protagonist Lizzie Benson works as a librarian without a traditional degree, thus administrating knowledge without being formally qualified - but, in the metaphorical sense, who really is? In the age of fragmented filter bubbles and the rise of hate, Lizzie also navigates her roles as wife and mother while trying to help her brother, a recovering addict with the need for overwhelming emotional support. And then her old academic mentor Sylvia Liller hires her to answer her fan mail, written by various listeners of her podcast "Hell and High Water" about the state of affairs. Jenny Offill’s voice in Weather stays in your bones and invades your thought patterns long after the book is set aside. She writes in short dispatches, describing everyday occurrences and numinous moments alike in only a few lines. The effect is not fragmentation, however, but cumulative awareness and understanding.Strange little novel that had me in the palm of its hand. There’s not really a plot, but sometimes, who needs one? Plot lovers, please don’t be scared off. It’s full of insights that are accessible and fascinating, and there is a story thread, I promise. Don’t shoot me. But, do please, if you are of a mind, explain how an emotional romance cannot be as damaging to a marriage, simply because no sexual intercourse has yet occurred. 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. Snow, sleet, squalls, and more! Kids love learning about weather, and teaching students about different types of weather and its causes is a great way to bring natural science to life.

Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Is Emotional, Planetary and Very

The language is simple but the things she talks about are complex. She doesn’t go all academic on us, though, to my complete happiness. It’s a little headier than I like, but strangely I didn’t mind—probably because she isn’t hoity-toity. What she does is very skillful, yet it seems effortless. I expected this would be more like the first three (Autumn, Winter and Spring) of Ali Smith’s brilliant seasonal quartet.It’s likely that some coastal routes, sea fronts and coastal communities will be affected by spray and/or large waves Both feature an American female wife and mother as a narrator, both focus almost obsessively on environmental issues, on the election of Trump and what the two together say about modern America, both obsessed that this is the worst-of-times (in direct contradiction to almost every possible statistical measure that can be used), both mix the profound with the mundane, both interleave trivia with domesticity and with world events. After all, isn't one of reading's greatest gifts the reassurance that we aren't alone in any of this?