Clouds: A Memoir

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Having watched cancer take someone special from me and my family, it was already a story I knew would be emotional for me, but I really wasn’t at all expecting how much it would inspire me. The book is illustrated with really beautiful photographs along with some line drawings that highlight some classical paintings and even some lava lamps.

The Vielmetter gallery in Los Angeles is currently hosting a solo exhibition of paintings by Celia Paul, artist and author of the New York Review Books memoirs Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen John. Exhibits of cloud images captured on film by John Day have been and/or are on exhibit in a number of public galleries including the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, Californa, and The Hong Kong Science Museum. Peters’s book will not only change how we think about media but provide a new appreciation for the day-to-day foundations of life on earth that we so often take for granted.They look up at certain cloud formations in the sky and then use this book as a resource to figure out what kind it is. He tells her yet another fantastical story, and it’s only when tragedy strikes that Tabby wonders … could Grandad’s impossible tale be true? My thanks to NetGalley, the publisher Nelson Books/Thomas Nelson and Laura Sobiech for the e-Arc of the book.

A wide-ranging meditation on the many means we have employed to cope with the struggles of existence—from navigation to farming, meteorology to Google— The Marvelous Clouds shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us. I’ve been struggling a lot recently with finding enjoyment in daily life and even just the will to get out of bed every day, but reading this really put so much into perspective for me.Gallery of Clouds exhibits a loose structure, following the whims of association rather than the rules of academic argumentation.

is a deft, unforgettable portrait of the child and the girl the author was who dwell so delightedly in her still, avid for insight and all the crucial refreshment that beauty, literature and art bring to life.Dr Richard Hamblyn is the author of The Invention of Clouds (2002), which won the LA Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.