Elsewhere, Offill offers a swift, poignant sketch of a woman for whom middle age has brought new insecurities: This book provides a delightful introduction to weather for young children. The illustrations are cheerful and filled with smiles; they are also very inclusive as they picture the children learning about the weather. The Met Office's latest book, 'Very British Weather',takes readers on a journey through weather and climate conditions in the UK, season by season. It explores the wisdom and wonders of weather, with facts on weather and climate and historical gems from our archive featured throughout as well as myth-busting trivia and activities.

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After all, isn't one of reading's greatest gifts the reassurance that we aren't alone in any of this? My only real critiques are that the idiosyncratic writing style starts to wear thin by the end, feeling increasingly fractured, disoriented, and aimless. Although perhaps that was Offill's intent? I definitely didn't do the unique format any favors by trying to scarf this down in one sitting. Reading stories to and with your child is one of the best ways to improve their knowledge of different sounds, how to form words and how sounds correspond to letters. Reading to young children has been proven to enhance their cognitive development and improve their language skills in all areas including speaking, listening and writing as well as reading. I joined a Radio 4 Book Club virtual discussion of Jenny Offill’s 2014 second novel “Dept of Speculation” (shortlisted for the Folio Prize); and, this, her third novel “Weather” appeared on a number of 2020-preview lists. Offill’s structure seems to approximate human thought in the digital age, where every idea that surfaces can be pursued down rabbit holes of facts and associations, such as when Lizzie, the narrator, is caring for her infant niece:This woman is a shrink. Also a Buddhist. She likes to practice on or the other on me, I’ve noticed. Presented with stunning visuals,learn the secrets of sunsets, discover freak weather facts and fogbows, and why forecasting was so important in British history, from D-Day to the Great Fire of London.

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There are plot threads—Lizzie meets an attractive stranger; supports her addict brother; works as an assistant for the charismatic Sylvia who hosts a climate change podcast called “Hell or High Water”; becomes obsessed with doomsday preppers—but these threads don't go very far. This is a novel more concerned with potentialities, the tension of the time before, of something about to happen. This extends not just to domestic worries, but an impending existential doom. Our narrator is Lizzie who is married with one sweet boy. She feels responsible for her brother who is fighting depression, anxiety, and addiction. She works for a woman who has a podcast about climate change; Lizzie has the responsibility of writing responses to this woman’s fans. This is such an informative little book! It is highly educational, creating a fun atmosphere for learning about our weather, the seasons, and how it affects our world. Kelly, Hillary (13 February 2020). "Jenny Offill Wrote the Perfect Worry Novel". Vulture. Vulture . Retrieved 6 January 2021. This book belongs in pre-schools and homes. Maybe it will encourage some future scientists and meteorologists!One of those books for me that I wanted to end to put me out of my misery. There are 5 parts to this novel and for the life of me I don’t see the decision point as to where one part ended and another one began. The book was a bunch of short paragraphs. Lizzie is the narrator and the book is about her and her husband Ben and their son Eli who is in elementary grade school. Then there is Lizzie’s brother Henry who falls in and out of sobriety and a woman he marries Catherine (why she would marry him I have no idea), and they have a baby. I would imagine you can get the plot from the synopsis. Sure was not much a plot IMHO. I know the time period was circa 2016 because Election Night 2016 was replayed again as if I needed to be reminded of it (given that we are approaching Election Night 2020). There was also a theme of survivalist training because some people in the book were convinced the end of the world as we know it was nigh due to climate change. 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. Huda Harajli’s book, All About Weather: A First Weather Book For Kids, illustrated by Jane Sanders informs the readers what the weather is and how many different types of weather there are. It tells the different four seasons and how the weather looks when they are around. It also tells the reader how some weathers are made. I loved every minute of Weather. It won’t be to everyone’s taste, thanks to the choppy style, specific brand of humour and refusal to deliver conventional narrative movement, but I thought it was brilliant. 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.

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and before you ask—all of this handwringing about ARE THEY OR ARE THEY NOT TYPOS??? was before i gobbled the pain pills. Charmingly written and delightfully illustrated, "All About Weather: A First Weather Book for Kids" makes it enjoyable and easy to answer "Why?" questions about the weather. Author Huda Harajli, an elementary teacher, writes weather books for children and also promotes weather safety awareness. The brightly colored, appealing illustrations along with the simply-worded, but interesting, weather info will make this a favorite family read-along. Here are some fun facts: Near the middle of the earth, there are only two seasons: rainy and dry. There are four types of clouds: Cumulus, Stratus, Cirrus, and Nimbus. Snowflakes are different shapes, but they all have six sides. Try counting the seconds between lightning and thunder--the higher the count, the farther away the storm is. Be weather-wise, stay safe, and don't forget the sunscreen! 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.One morning a student tells me failure is not an option, and is angered when I laugh. I assume a cheerful manner. I tell her, Hey, me too, I used to have plans!" A few days later, I yelled at him for losing his new lunch box, and he turned to me and said, Are you sure you’re my mother? Sometimes you don’t seem like a good enough person. I loved the narrator but found some of the other characters hard to keep up with. Specially as who they were and their role/job etc wasn’t always explicitly named. Maybe if it was read in one sitting then I wouldn’t have had this problem so much. Welcome to the wonderful world of weather! From the warm, balmy days of summer to the cold, crisp nights of winter, kids will learn all about the four seasons, as well as how clouds form, why it rains, what causes a rainbow, and so much more. Read along and wow your child with the meteorological magic that’s happening around them every day. A war-time romance, without the war, without the sex....” with the bookish hunk Quebecois, whilst taking care of the neurotic drug-addicted brother, and attending to her precursive decrepitude, mostly after husband took their young son out of town to get away from neo-negative Nelly, the narrator.