Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - Weather

This will absolutely not be everyone’s cup of tea, especially with its structure, but it is absolutely mine. I loved it. Perfect for people with existential dread, some light religious trauma, and people who generally feel a base line amount of doom and gloom about the world who also want to feel hopeful in a way that doesn’t feel too presumptuous. But also very much exists in a white lady echo chamber of guilt and end times feelings

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monahed's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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unabridgedchick's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Totally baffled by the love for this one; it felt SO incomplete and like there were fifteen layers of glass between me and the narrator. Somehow we're in her thoughts but completely disconnected, too. Had to push myself to finish this and I just don't know what the point of it was.

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alyssa_moni's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is as hit-and-miss as the weather in Melbourne. Sometimes I wanted to grab out a highlighter, others times I wondered if Offill had any clue what she was saying. I think this book is about as close as anything I’ve read that mirrors the effects of visual art. Staring at a painting and scratching my head.

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brogan7's review against another edition

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dark funny lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

I was disappointed in this book. There is so much about it to like...grappling with climate change, dealing with a troubled brother, raising a child, relating to a friend who decides to retreat from the world in the face of the impending disaster...
But she doesn't penetrate any of these issues with any depth. She seems averse to creating a whole sentence, in fact (well maybe they're sentences but barely...okay, I've been reading Middlemarch alongside so maybe this isn't fair but honestly she doesn't stay with a thought for five minutes.). I wanted to know...the grit of, what happens with the brother? How does the niece's hair smell? (The baby seems like just a prop, never grazes real.). How do you as a human who cares, bear the weight of your loved ones' sorrows?
If Offill never hit a true note, I would dismiss this book as just unimportant, but I felt that she had something, she just didn't stay with it. I have a friend who is retreating from the world...I wanted to learn something, I wanted to relate... obviously Offill writes because she cares about these things, but then why doesn't she give anything? It's all a big sardonic joke. You survive by glossing the surfaces? I don't believe it. The way she writes suggests to me that she has lots to say, she just doesn't go there.
I wanted her to go there.

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leahfigiel's review against another edition

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emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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mariaeileen's review

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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