My only real critiques are that the idiosyncratic writing style starts to wear thin by the end, feeling increasingly fractured, disoriented, and aimless.

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When there is much uncertainty, we feel a lack of control and our brains go into overtime trying to find a way to get in control of the situation. However, Lizzie is quite a witty and wise narrator with a good handle on things, you never get the sense that her troubles will totally capsize her. I feel if you'd send this book back in time 25 years it would be seen as bold, visionary, and smartly extrapolating trends then only just apparent. Offill manages to infuse it all with the anxiety, frustration, and sadness surrounding big issues, like climate change and current politics.

I really liked how adorable the drawings were, and how simple questions are asked to educate on each topic of weather. if i’m wrong, oh well, and you can blame NYU's undergrad english program for conditioning me to look too hard at shit all those years ago. And of course, stories have the magical ability to transport children to another world in their imaginations, which will help them to develop creatively too. More things than fiction have changed since 2014, and Lizzie is living, as Twitter users so often lament, in end times. At the moment I need books that say something tangible and preferably factual, so it is not the authors fault that I picked the wrong type of book for my mood.

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There is an increased likelihood of bad weather affecting you, which could potentially disrupt your plans and possibly cause travel delays, road and rail closures, interruption to power and the potential risk to life and property. We also talked about the weather outside and how the sun was hiding behind the clouds, making it a cloudy day. In the movies he likes there is always some great disaster about to happen and only one unlikely person who can stop it. Much of it is dominated by thoughts on climate change and the election of Trump, so without the humour and quirkiness it might be rather gloomy, but overall it is quite an entertaining and thought provoking read.

Before Offill settled on the title Weather, the book had two earlier titles: Learning to Die and, later, American Weather.