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The Age of Miracles - Community Reviews back

by Karen Thompson Walker
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pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 6 years ago
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...
Ruined by Reading
Ruined by Reading rated it 9 years ago
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 ...
SilverThistle
SilverThistle rated it 10 years ago
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...
realityinabox
realityinabox rated it 11 years ago
The prose was beautiful in most spots, but the story was very flimsy, and the science was even more so.
Sad Books Say So Much
Sad Books Say So Much rated it 11 years ago
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...
Becca's Book Bonanza!
Becca's Book Bonanza! rated it 11 years ago
this book was very interesting but fell a little short for me. There wasn't a real direction with the story, more of just a snapshot of life with no real story movement or progression of a plot. I did enjoy seeing a girl who wasn't given everything in the story just cause she was the main characte...
Book Talk
Book Talk rated it 11 years ago
3.5 starsI thought the book just made an okay read eventhough the ideas behind it were actually pretty intriguing. It tells the story of Julia and her family and the rest of the world discovering the slowing of the rotation of the earth on one fateful day which begins to affect the Earth from that d...
Don't Be Afraid of the Dork
Don't Be Afraid of the Dork rated it 11 years ago
Format: Audio (Electronic from Library)Narrated By: Emily Janice CardOriginal Publication Year: 2012Genre(s): Young Adult Science FictionSeries: NAAwards: NoneIt has been a year of young adult literature for me. It started during a very busy stressful time at work when I needed some straightforward...
Ceridwen
Ceridwen rated it 11 years ago
Cross-posted on Soapboxing.netI feel slightly apologetic about how much I loved reading The Age of Miracles, because it would be easy to sit down and enumerate all the things that are going to bother other people. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and do that right now. But I still adored this, despite...
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it 12 years ago
I found The Age Of Miracles a difficult book to drop into a slot. It’s a matter-of-fact coming-of-age story, seemingly poised to attract both adult-fiction and YA reading audiences, set in an environment that’s familiar and unrecognizable at the same time...and Walker seems content to leave many of ...
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