The Book of Clouds

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This is an irresistible story about a little cloud who wants to do big and important things like the other clouds. There was a spring to his utterances,” she tells us, “a buoyancy packed and delivered in anticipation of every stop, and I would put away my book or newspaper and sit back and listen to the stations as they were rolled off, one by one, uninterrupted — that is, if other presences didn’t interfere, such as plainclothes ticket inspectors or junkie musicians, their pleas for attention like dark blood clots in the city’s circulation. The descriptions of the clouds are expressive and imaginative, one of my favorites is the "cloud haircut" Pileus cloud, a "supercooled droplet bouffant, worn exclusively by the fashionable Cumulus family". ff Midnight trip to Holocaust memorial: "the 2711 concrete slabs like a stalled army converging from all sides.

Yet these moments also make it easy to forget at times that there is something more haunting Tatiana’s thoughts and experiences in Berlin—she is Jewish.Whether you’re a weather watcher, an enthusiast, or just really curious, this is a fun book to explore. Celebrating the wonder and variety of the earth - and the need to protect it - this is an eclectic collection of poetry from across time and continents. But when a greedy king demands a full wardrobe, the boy is forced to use all the clouds… leaving the land without rain. Right at the beginning of the book, Tatiana sees what she believes is an aged Hitler dressed as a woman on an underground train.

But to get an idea of how the weather will develop for the precise spot where you’re standing (or walking, sailing, golfing, fishing, etc) you don’t need any equipment or a wifi connection – you just need to look up. A stunning debut novel inviting comparisons with Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin.There’s so much to learn about these shapeshifting things that you might wonder why you’re not already curious about them. Non-fiction books about clouds are really going to focus on teaching you all the ins and outs, touching on rain and on the different formations, on the appropriate names, and also the implications of clouds. A nice story but the protagonist was a bit lackluster and wishy washy (An ester greenwood wannabe if you will) but soon I will also trapeze the streets of Berlin as a young angsty twenty something. Any aviator would tell you about the importance of the need to have a thorough understanding of the different types of clouds, how they are formed, and most especially, what they are telling us. Tatiana compares fingernails to days: "You would only notice the erosion if my hands were at rest, otherwise the nails still looked elegant, a harmonious blur, just like the days themselves, which passed without consequence unless you pinned one down and examined it too closely.