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A review by jodiwilldare
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
4.0
It’s only June but I have to put the rest of the books of 2012 on notice. You’re gonna have to work really hard to knock The Age of Miracles from the ‘Most Favorite Novel of the Year’ spot.
Holy shit, I fell fast and hard for Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel about a young girl, her family, and an event that could spell the end of the world.
Julia is just eleven when the slowing begins. It seems the Earth has slipped off its rotation and extra minute are pouring into the day. People immediately lose their shit, crying about the apocalypse. The sunrise and sunset has become unpredictable. Daylight can last for 12, 15, 18 hours at a time. The government doesn’t know what the hell to do. There’s a great chasm between people who live ‘by the clock’ — those who conduct their lives according to what the clock says — and the ‘real timers’ — those who conduct their lives according to the rising and setting of the sun.
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Holy shit, I fell fast and hard for Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel about a young girl, her family, and an event that could spell the end of the world.
Julia is just eleven when the slowing begins. It seems the Earth has slipped off its rotation and extra minute are pouring into the day. People immediately lose their shit, crying about the apocalypse. The sunrise and sunset has become unpredictable. Daylight can last for 12, 15, 18 hours at a time. The government doesn’t know what the hell to do. There’s a great chasm between people who live ‘by the clock’ — those who conduct their lives according to what the clock says — and the ‘real timers’ — those who conduct their lives according to the rising and setting of the sun.
read more