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May Reading Roulette

The May Reading Roulette Category is: Read a book with a weather-related word in the title. 

"Example book titles should contain words like: storm, wind, rain, sun, flood, blizzard, heat, air, breeze, chill, dry, drizzle, drought, cyclone, tornado, hurricane, freeze, frost, gale, weather, humid, ice, lightning, polar, rainbow, depression, hail, steam, shower, snow, burst, smoke, smog, thunder, tropical, typhoon, vortex, warm, warning, wave. Of course, you can use all versions of these words, like icy, rainy, snowy, etc. You can also use any other words that you feel fit the category."



This month I decided to take the roulette challenge a little literally. I chose a book that is called "Weather: A Novel." I figured since it' weather-related, what better word to use than weather?!?!

 "Weather" is written by Jenny Offill and is an interesting read to say the least, but please do NOT read if you having questionable mental health. The first hundred or so pages were good; they reminded me of my brain bouncing from point A to point B some days. That is what I like about this book -- it reads more like your jumbled thoughts. Halfway through they start touching on some deeper topics, such as suicide. Maybe I'm bias because I'm attending a funeral this weekend for a person who's death was classified as a suicide. That could be why I found a few of the entries so off-putting, but please read with care. If I could have thrown the book, I would have, but I can't really throw my computer...

 I think this book does a good job of capturing the struggle of someone wanting to help a friend or family member with mental health problems, but doesn't know how to. Many reviews focus on the climate change aspect, but I always see the mental health struggle. The narrator is a doomsday prepper living with climate change as well as everything else surrounding her. It's just a really odd read.

 If your's looking for something different this is your book. I don't rate it very high, but maybe it was just too different for my brain. I give it two stars. ⭐⭐


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