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How to Predict the Weather
by
Aaron Burch (Goodreads Author)
Ranging from lyrical commands to surreal narratives, Aaron Burch's short fictions swirl with whimsy, meditation, sadness, and hope; blur the line between real and imagined; and focus on loss of lovers, of family members, and even of one's self! From the founder and editor of the literary journal Hobart.
Paperback, 102 pages
Published
November 9th 2010
by Keyhole Press
(first published September 1st 2010)
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so I've had two important revelations today:
1. I gave a book 4 stars that I should have given five stars which is now skewing all my other reviews down a star. (this books star rating has been corrected for this issue thereby giving it an additional star at least for the time being.
2. my current book goal is very stressful and gave me kind of a heart attack when it told me I was a book behind earlier today.
I have no idea where I bought this book or how I came upon it to be completely honest,...more
1. I gave a book 4 stars that I should have given five stars which is now skewing all my other reviews down a star. (this books star rating has been corrected for this issue thereby giving it an additional star at least for the time being.
2. my current book goal is very stressful and gave me kind of a heart attack when it told me I was a book behind earlier today.
I have no idea where I bought this book or how I came upon it to be completely honest,...more
I confess that I picked up Aaron Burch’s How to Predict the Weather out of my to-be-read pile (one of many, in truth) because it was short. I know Aaron, and so I’d intended to read it eventually anyway, but brevity is what drew me to it last night. And I liked it a lot. The book is extremely hard to categorize. It reads a bit like a collection of poetry (at about 100 pages in a small format, it’s about the right length). But it’s all prose, and the individual pieces are of two types. There are...more
This short collection is made up of flash fiction, some of which reads like poetry. Many of the stories are loosely related, using a lot of the same metaphors--birds, clouds, etc--and some have hints of being different snapshots of the same couple/relationship. Despite the stories being so short, I found myself reading them in short chunks. Several of the stories really stick out, mostly because of really lovely language. My favorite was a story about a woman whose hands are turning into birds,...more
Mar 21, 2012
Leesa
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
ppl who like stars, whiskey, parking lots, folding paper birds, fireworks...
i love this collection b/c of reasons and some of those reasons are: stars, whiskey, parking lots, folding paper birds, fireworks, clouds and boys loving girls. aaron's writing is that beautiful mix of simple and thinky. and he writes the kinda stories that i wanna read over and over again and that is my v. favorite thing abt reading/writing.
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Such careful, thoughtful prose! I love how the instructions break up the narrative.
I read this book as part instructions and part demonstration of how to try navigating life and relating to people in it. I have no idea if that is the way I was supposed to read it, but I really liked it this way. The prose felt very gentle, but that greatly magnified the sharp moments. Definitely, there are sharp moments just as there are sad moments and moments of drifting. The structure is interesting. It gave me an autumn like floating feel that carried me from beginning to end, and then lef...more
A combination of beautiful and quirky. Subtle, introspective. Very, very nice.
Good, visceral, dreamlike work here.
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