Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. book review: The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. Jamesįollow pace, amore, libri on WordPress. Jenny Offill is the author of three novels, most recently Weather.book review: Either/Or by Elif Batuman | BookBrowse.Women’s Prize 2020 reviews: Dominicana | Fleishman is in Trouble | Girl | Girl, Woman, Other | How We Disappeared | Red at the Bone | Weather An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. You can pick up a copy of Weather here on Book Depository. Maybe I’ve just read a few too many navel-gazing literary novels lately for this to shine through. I ultimately just needed a bit more from it, but I think that’s on me rather than the author. I had to constantly remind myself who was who – Ben, Eli, Henry, I think were their names, but even now I couldn’t tell you who was the husband, brother, and son – and there was nothing about Lizzie’s story in particular that justified to me why this was the particular story that Offill chose to tell. It was a short, breezy read, but for whatever reason I didn’t have time to read it in a single sitting, and every time I put it down and picked it back up, I couldn’t remember where I had left off. 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.īut with that said… I didn’t particularly like it? I mostly found this book incredibly forgettable. I don’t think this is a bad book at all, I want to make that clear right away.

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