The Age of Miracles
A luminous, magical coming-of-age novel' Marie Claire'Maybe everything that had happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.'One Saturday morning the world wakes to discover that the rotation of the earth has...
show more
A luminous, magical coming-of-age novel' Marie Claire'Maybe everything that had happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.'One Saturday morning the world wakes to discover that the rotation of the earth has begun to slow. As birds fall from the sky and days grow longer, people start
show less
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781471124853
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
I found the premise very exciting and the execution not fitting with it. I didn't get a sense of Julia as a person enough to get immersed in the nostalgia of the narrative, which mainly ignores explanations, politics, basically anything outside of her bubble. She's recalling from so far in the futur...
And Again finds a group of 4 people just as they are emerging from the first stages of an experimental medical procedure that will implant their memories into cloned, genetically perfect, replica bodies. As part of the SUBlife program that provided each person an out from terminal illness, they are ...
When I started this I thought I was going to get some kind of Apocalyptic End of the World type story but I can't really say that's how it turned out. It's more a coming of age type story with a bit of monumental planetary change in the background.It's a very good story and it's very well written, t...
The prose was beautiful in most spots, but the story was very flimsy, and the science was even more so.
To the tune of Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks: Farewell, so long, the world we knew To old traditions we bid sad adieu. Forever died, and now we grieve. For the Earth we are bereaved All those lies that we believed. Goodbye true love, for you I mourn i often wish that we could be reborn. Know...
10 years ago
Log in with Facebook 
![The Age of Miracles: A Novel (Edition First Edition) by Thompson Walker, Karen [Hardcover(2012£©]](http://booklikes.com/photo/max/100/150/upload/books/43/45/eafd8bc6f59c1fb137088e78ce265a53.jpg)
