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Given the types of books that I buy/read, I guess it's not surprising that I accidentally read two "soft-apolcalyptic" (is there a word to describe this genre already? Did I just make one up? TRADEMARK!) books back to back, but it wasn't by design in that I had forgotten what both were about. Anyway, they were very different, but both were excellent.
Here the conceit is that the Earth's rotation has slowed - no one knows why, or exactly what it means, and this book follows young Julia as she nav ...more
Here the conceit is that the Earth's rotation has slowed - no one knows why, or exactly what it means, and this book follows young Julia as she nav ...more
The Age of Miracles was recommended to me by a fellow at work who knows I love to read. I generally trust Chris to steer me to books I don't normally go for. I loved this book, but it was much like the recent remake of Jane Eyre.
Both of these are beautiful but the endings made me go "THAT'S IT?!?"
The movie because I was that's not how it ends, which is a whole other story in my reading/movie quirk and the book because I just wanted more. ...more
Both of these are beautiful but the endings made me go "THAT'S IT?!?"
The movie because I was that's not how it ends, which is a whole other story in my reading/movie quirk and the book because I just wanted more. ...more
I loved this book. It is at once complex and simple. This is not a thrilling, heart stopping story, but a delicate emotional book that has so many things happening so gently, that I didn't realize it until I tried to tell someone what the book was about. A slowing of the earth, the ecological, geographical, and scientific results of that. The story of an adolescent girl, her family's crisis, the relationship with her grandfather, her social relationships. The reaction of the community and genera
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