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The Age of Miracles - Community Reviews back

by Karen Thompson Walker
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The Nrrdling (Aryn)
The Nrrdling (Aryn) rated it 12 years ago
Welp, that was a thoroughly depressing coming of age novel.
Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue rated it 12 years ago
The main character in The Age of Miracles is Julia, a eleven-year-old girl who lives with her parents in California. She has a quiet life revolving around schhol, piano lessons, and her best friend, Hanna. However, one day people notice that the earth's rotation is slowing down, and the days are get...
Milka Really Likes To Read
Milka Really Likes To Read rated it 12 years ago
Age of Miracles was one of those books I kind of "had" to buy just to get the 3 for 5 pounds sale at Works. The cover looked interesting and the little blurb in the back sounded like something I might be interested in. When I was looking for a short read, I picked this up from the shelf and started ...
meganbaxter
meganbaxter rated it 12 years ago
I think I am exactly the wrong audience for this book. I read a lot of science fiction, see, and this book is very much trying to do science fiction without the science fiction. And so my inclination is to want the book to explore at least some of the science behind what's going on, and the steadfas...
Ruined by Reading
Ruined by Reading rated it 12 years ago
I think what I loved most about this book was the voice of the narrator, an 11 year old girl named Julia, whose awkward pre-teen years coincide with an increasingly odd natural phenomena: the slowing of the rotation of Earth on its axis. Where traditional science fiction and much dystopian fiction s...
beccabee
beccabee rated it 12 years ago
I think I loved this book.
thomcat
thomcat rated it 12 years ago
This debut novel is about a coming of age and an apocalyptic event. I confess it was the former that drew me to this book, fitting recent reads such as the Death of Grass. The narrator doesn't know the science of what happened, which fits well with not telling the reader. I enjoyed the coming-of-age...
Nocturnal Book Reviews
Nocturnal Book Reviews rated it 12 years ago
4.5/5beautiful book, really enjoyed it! Review soon...
eshchory
eshchory rated it 12 years ago
I bought this book on a whim having heard so many great reviews.The reviews were so enthusiastic that I rather expected to be swept off my feet by a delightful gem of a book. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, this book is good, just not that good.It recounts the year in the life...
byeol
byeol rated it 12 years ago
3.5 - 4 stars.
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