Weather (2020) by Jenny Offill and being environmentally responsible
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Hi, Guys, it’s Kamil here and I’m coming to you with a review of published just a week ago, on the 11th of January, Jenny Offill’s third novel - Weather.
In the second half of this video, I’ll talk about how I, personally, try to be more environmentally responsible.
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On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
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Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed for in the 21st Century by Harald Welzer
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Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
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Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
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Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
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The Wall by John Lanchester
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I loved Weather. I found it a very interesting novel. It was a nice mix of seriousness and fun. Some passages had me laughing others made me want to cry. I loved the style of writing and found that you could almost make several different stories out of the passages on each page. For a small book there was a lot going on and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Happy to hear that, I feel very much the same about this novel. Have you read her earlier works?
@@WhatKamilReads I haven't read her other books as yet but I enjoyed her style of writing so am thinking I might give one or both a try. Weather was such a multi-layered book and quite short but it encompassed so much. I really loved it. You think I will love her other books as much?
Dept of Speculation is very good but it’s rather focused on couple dynamics and inner world rather then the problematic big one.
@@WhatKamilReads I am thinking I might give it a try - it has good reviews everywhere. I liked Jenny's writing style so that makes me keen to read more of her work.
Great review. Love, love, love the creative way you handled this review.
Sherri Harte thank you so much you are very kind
The quote you read about the picnic by the lake was chilling. I'm glad that you reviewed Weather and suggested a few non-fiction reads. It is a topic of critical importance. Your recommendation that authors might consider writing novels with a move toward more solutions- based quests is a good one. Thank you for doing this review. Loved it! In addition, sharing the choices you have made in your lifestyle to address environmental issues reminds me that we all need to take steps to help the environment. Plenty of food for thought.
Yes, chilly and a fantastic quote. The pleasure was all mine in terms of a review. Thank you for a kind comment.
That was amazing , l could keep listening and l learnt a lot , Thank you.
Leonie Clarkinaus thank you Leonie means a lot
Fantastic video and analysis. Thank you.
Hardcover Hearts oh lovely to hear that form you thank you Sarah
That was a thoughtful video and I will have to read Weather. The vignette about eating while children drowned in the lake was such a powerful thing. I recently read Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich - an account of how we knew all about climate change in the 1980s and how some tried to do something about it. It doesn't have a happy ending.
Thank you Ian, yes a powerful quote. I need to pick up Losing Earth, haven't read it yet.
We can either care and try to do better or not care...thanx for your effort🥳
Wyld Wood thank you too😊😊
Living environmeltally friendlier is something I have been interested in most of my life and am frequently surprised at how many things I used to do for convenience when it was so easy to change. Like not using plastic bags, I always forgot my bags at home - until they stopped selling plastic bags at the grocery store. That was like a wake up call for me a few years ago, we need politics to do the heavy lifting. Similar with water bottles. I used to buy a plastic bottle, refill it for a while but then buy a new one as it got "stale". There were no good alternatives, not like today. For a while I've been using a BRITA sports bottle with a water filter, now it's still made of plastic but I don't need a new bottle every other day but maybe once a year, which is already better. On buying local I keep getting mixed information, as storage for products like apples or carrots for example here can produce more CO2 than having it imported. It's too complicated for one person to keep an overview of. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. For meat consumption I think people would do to just reduce how much they eat and increase how much they think they want to spend on it. I'm curious to see if politics will step up in the future and take more responsibiliy or not.
I absolutely agree, we should just try to improve and show by our behaviour that we try and it matters. It shows that you are way on that path. I agree (if I got you right) that meat should be taxed so people would think twice before eating it.
My motto is always refuse and then reduce. I've been refusing plastic and paper bags in shops for some ten years, because I have my big and beautiful tote bags and one day a shopkeeper told me that she had heard about me, the lady who refused bags and made the employees put all the kids' clothes in her cloth bags. I didn't know that I was a legend in my local shopping centre! Ha ha!
I can't wait to read Offill's new book as I found the writing in Dept. of Speculation very clean and smart.
Paula aka azelia lopes wow, that’s a lovely story Paula, and fantastic to hear you’ve been doing it for such a long time, when hardly anybody was so aware
Great video. I recently read Olga Tokarczuk‘s DRIVE YOU PLOW that is also very much concerned with animal welfare. I have been thinking about my own buying habits and have started making small changes here and there: no plastic bags, bringing my own water bottle, but the big one is reducing my consumption of meat. I am not quite there yet, but I am on my way.
That is so true, she is vegetarian to my knowledge, not perfect yet (not vega;-)) but step by step. Its really fantastic you are reducing your meat consumption,
EXCELLENT! We have been trying to downsize for a minute now. Have gotten in the habit of keeping bags in my car and purse. I have been eating less meat too. I'll never be vegan. LOL!
Thank you and never say never my dear Didi ;-)
WhatKamilReads uh never. 😉
Jenny Offill is my cousin!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Rally? She is awesome.
@@WhatKamilReads yep!
I added Weather to my list, because we have similar taste and interests. But after Ducks, Newburyport, where I am 30% in.
Stan Georgiana very glad to hear you are reading ducks! Please let me know how you liked it after you are done with it
there has been so much buzz about weather, i really want to read it. i havent read climate wars, but i loved on fire (i love naomi klein in general)
I love her too :)
Nice review, Kamil! I just finished reading Weather. I looked for reviews just to find yours! I'm still trying to work out how I feel about Offill's novel, but let's just say that I enjoyed your review a lot more than the novel.
Hi Juan, thank you. She’s definitely not the author for everybody. Have you read her earlier works or this is your first?
@@WhatKamilReads Weather was my first. I haven't decided if I want to read her previous novels yet.
I wanted to know the weather is a ficion or non fictional work?
Fiction
@@WhatKamilReads tq so much for ur reply