This is a very interesting little novel let down a rather poor ending. It's beautifully written and remarkably focused. It could very easily have drifted off, like every other doomsday book out there, and focused on the terrors that face us, come our inevitable annihilation but you know what? Th...
Lately it seems like many of the books I read and like fit in between the genres of literary fiction and science fiction. This is one of those books--about what would happen on earth if the axis changed its tilt. At the same time, it's also a coming-of-age story--the narrator is a middle-schooler wh...
Unlikely others book of the genre, what matters for the narrative isn't the extraordinary event the character is experiencing or the speculations about it. Instead, is what she's living when the "slowing" happened and its aftermath that matters. For that, I really liked this book.
What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day became night and night became day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a family and a young girl, who is already coping with t...
I thought this book was very well done. I would categorize it as young adult (akin to House of the Red Scorpion), rather than adult fiction. The language was compelling, the story was interesting, the science (I really have no idea how accurate it was) seemed plausible and the relationships were s...
This had a great premise that was well-developed on both a world-building (of sorts) and more intimate level. It reminded me of The Leftovers by Perrotta. Even though the narrator was 11, it definitely read like an adult book and not a kids or teen book - which is a bit of criticism in that it didn...
The focus of this book was on relationships, character development, and the growing pains of life, rather than on the supernatural elements. So this book should be categorized pretty much as contemporary fiction rather than science fiction. I really enjoyed the "coming of age" aspects of story, wh...
Three point five. Lots of secondary meaning on it's underbelly. I'll have to think this one over for awhile. Post thoughts: There is a love interest that is threaded through its pages. I change in the earth's rotation, and physical changes to the primary characters life and environment. This a...
Beautiful writing. It had a very melancholy feel to it and the ending seemed abrupt. Overall it was OK but more could have been done with the storyline.
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