{"id":17213,"date":"2012-09-18T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2012-09-10T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:39:17","slug":"the-age-of-miracles-by-karen-thompson-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-age-of-miracles-by-karen-thompson-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the most buzzed-about books of the summer, The Age of Miracles<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Karen Thompson Walker raises the question:\u00a0 what would happen if the Earth’s rotation\u00a0suddenly began to slow down?\u00a0\u00a0Narrated by\u00a011-year-old Julia, the novel explores not only the ramifications of this global disaster but also how it affects the already tumultuous time between childhood and adolescence.<\/p>\n

I read this book several weeks ago and held off on blogging about it because, frankly, I was disappointed.\u00a0 But I realize now that perhaps I just went into it with the wrong expectations.\u00a0 As a reader who adores sci-fi and fantasy literature, I felt that the earth’s slowing rotation and its effects were extremely underdeveloped.\u00a0 I wanted more information about why it happened, good descriptive passages about the effects it had on life all over the planet, and to feel the sense of danger and dread that should have been felt with this sort of catostrophic event.\u00a0 But that’s not really the focus of this book, and if you go into\u00a0it\u00a0prepared to practically ignore the science of it all, it becomes a\u00a0better story.<\/p>\n

The Age of Miracles<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is really\u00a0a coming-of-age story about Julia, who just so happens to live in a time when the earth’s rotation is slowing.\u00a0 It’s a novel about growing up and the changes that come along with it no matter what kind of crisis is happening in the outside world: friends still grow apart, bodies still change, your parents still don’t understand you.\u00a0 The passages focusing on Julia’s feelings and her relationships are beautifully written.\u00a0 Walker quickly draws the reader into Julia’s story and makes you care about her; you’ll want to jump right into the book and punch the bully who picks on her at the bus stop right in front of the boy she likes. \u00a0Overall I would recommend this book if you’re looking for a nicely written coming-of-age story in a unique setting, but aren’t too concerned about sci-fi elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most buzzed-about books of the summer, The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker raises the question:\u00a0 what would happen if the Earth’s rotation\u00a0suddenly began to slow down?\u00a0\u00a0Narrated by\u00a011-year-old Julia, the novel explores not only the ramifications of this global disaster but also how it affects the[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[266,742,156,1465],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-coming-of-age","tag-fantasy","tag-growing-up","tag-magical-realism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4tD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17284,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions\/17284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}