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jay_the_hippie 's review for:
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
While this book wasn't quite what I expected, I did enjoy it.
I thought this book would go more into the solutions for the worldwide disaster. I pictured it overflowing with science and engineering... inventors trying to fix the Earth. Instead, it was the story of how this major event affected the life of a middle school girl.
Like I said, though, I did enjoy the story. I found a lot of parallels between the disaster of "the slowing" and the changes that come about in Middle School. The loss of contact. The strangeness of the changes in culture, in personalities, in living. I tried to read it as an allegory and sometimes that fit very well, but in places is was baggy or pulled tight: not a perfect fit.
Julia's story is worth reading. The affect on the slowing on ordinary people is heartbreaking at times. The rumors, fear, anger, and sadness feel like what would really happen in such an event. I liked how the accumulation of the disaster is shown. I just had to suspend my scientific disbelief at times.
Overall, I did enjoy this book, even if it wasn't what I expected to read. It's a coming of age novel, set in an age when the world is rather mirroring the microcosmic turmoil of being a young adolescent.
I thought this book would go more into the solutions for the worldwide disaster. I pictured it overflowing with science and engineering... inventors trying to fix the Earth. Instead, it was the story of how this major event affected the life of a middle school girl.
Like I said, though, I did enjoy the story. I found a lot of parallels between the disaster of "the slowing" and the changes that come about in Middle School. The loss of contact. The strangeness of the changes in culture, in personalities, in living. I tried to read it as an allegory and sometimes that fit very well, but in places is was baggy or pulled tight: not a perfect fit.
Julia's story is worth reading. The affect on the slowing on ordinary people is heartbreaking at times. The rumors, fear, anger, and sadness feel like what would really happen in such an event. I liked how the accumulation of the disaster is shown. I just had to suspend my scientific disbelief at times.
Overall, I did enjoy this book, even if it wasn't what I expected to read. It's a coming of age novel, set in an age when the world is rather mirroring the microcosmic turmoil of being a young adolescent.