IniciGrupsConversesMésTendències
Cerca al lloc
Aquest lloc utilitza galetes per a oferir els nostres serveis, millorar el desenvolupament, per a anàlisis i (si no has iniciat la sessió) per a publicitat. Utilitzant LibraryThing acceptes que has llegit i entès els nostres Termes de servei i política de privacitat. L'ús que facis del lloc i dels seus serveis està subjecte a aquestes polítiques i termes.

Resultats de Google Books

Clica una miniatura per anar a Google Books.

The Age of Miracles: A Novel de Karen…
S'està carregant…

The Age of Miracles: A Novel (edició 2012)

de Karen Thompson Walker (Autor)

MembresRessenyesPopularitatValoració mitjanaMencions
3,3033353,935 (3.66)187
Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.
Membre:sunybookworm
Títol:The Age of Miracles: A Novel
Autors:Karen Thompson Walker (Autor)
Informació:Random House (2012), Edition: 1st, 288 pages
Col·leccions:La teva biblioteca
Valoració:*****
Etiquetes:fiction, dystopia, notes

Informació de l'obra

The Age of Miracles de Karen Thompson Walker

  1. 61
    Life as We Knew It de Susan Beth Pfeffer (chazzard)
  2. 32
    The Dog Stars de Peter Heller (KatyBee)
  3. 00
    In Zanesville de Jo Ann Beard (hairball)
  4. 00
    The Rest is Silence de Scott Fotheringham (ShelfMonkey)
  5. 00
    Phoenix Rising de Karen Hesse (SylviaC)
  6. 00
    Salvation City de Sigrid Nunez (bluenotebookonline)
  7. 00
    The Sunlight Pilgrims de Jenni Fagan (KatyBee)
  8. 00
    California de Edan Lepucki (pbirch01)
    pbirch01: Both books deal with living in California after a major environmental change and how to bring normalcy to uncertain times.
  9. 00
    Parable of the Sower de Octavia E. Butler (Othemts)
    Othemts: Young narrators observe the slow decline of society into dystopia as result of natural disasters.
  10. 23
    The Lovely Bones de Alice Sebold (BookshelfMonstrosity)
    BookshelfMonstrosity: Despite differences in plot -- a teenager's post-murder afterlife in The Lovely Bones, and civilization's slow, steady collapse in the aftermath of disaster in The Age of Miracles -- the thoughtful young heroines of these melancholy, haunting stories are similar to one another.… (més)
S'està carregant…

Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar.

No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.

» Mira també 187 mencions

Es mostren 1-5 de 336 (següent | mostra-les totes)
This book has a very soft, quiet feel to it.

A young girl tells us about how she and her family deal with "the slowing", a catastrophic change in the rotation of the Earth that changes everything.

While the slowing is constantly present, story is really about her family dynamics and her first experiences with love.

While big things are happening all the time in this book it almost feels like nothing happens - its all just mundane in this new world.

Read it quickly - in just a sitting or two - and enjoyed it quit a bit, but I can't quite put my finger on why. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Started off sorta interesting but by the end was pretty boring ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
Honestly, this book really surprised me. It definitely jerked my feelings around and having read this while in a pandemic kinda hit close to home. I really enjoyed this book and feel it's underrated. ( )
  KrabbyPattyCakes | Dec 3, 2023 |
What if the earth started to rotate slower and slower each day? Would humans and the earths other species be able to adapt and survive ? This is the question The Age of Miracles poses. It's wonderfully told from the point of view of a 12 year old girl, but what makes this book so interesting is that opens up so many questions of what really would happen if this were to occur and I found my mind constantly turning to the subject even when I wasn't actually reading it. What if ? ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
A book with unsettling basis. Time is slowing as the rotation of the earth slows and the major and minor impacts as the rate changes. Focused on a family in southern California, the young girl and how she deals with all the strange changes happening to birds, crops, relationships, changing length of day and night. I wondered how the author would end the story but did not feel let down by the fact she didn't try for a happy ending or even an explanation of why it all happened. ( )
  ElizabethCromb | Apr 2, 2023 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 336 (següent | mostra-les totes)
"The Age of Miracles"? More like: "The Age of Disasters"! Before I get into why I say that, I'll elaborate on what the book is about. First off, it's actually a very well written book. it's told from the point of view of a middle school aged girl and the events in the story take place are told through her perspective. Everything was fine, until the days started to get longer. First it was only by a few minutes everyday, then it escalated to half an hour, then a full hour, then hours, until people who were stuck on the side of the hemisphere facing the Sun found that the suns hostile rays make the outside world totally inhospitable. people were forced to permanently take refuge inside their household as a slight reprieve to escape a heat-related death.

The reason I call it "The Age of Disasters" is because of how terribly things spiral out of control. Everyday lives are thrown out of whack as people scramble to reorient themselves into their new reality. I went into the book having almost no prior knowledge about its plot. I thought it would be a lot happier than what it was on account of it having the word "Miracles" in the title. And boy was I wrong.

The ending of this book doesn't even come close to the word "bittersweet." It's just plain bitter to me. It doesn't delve too deeply into the fate of humanity, but a 20 year time-skip does show you what becomes of the main character and her family, sans her love interest who she hasn't seen since the suns powerful rays gave him cancer and forced him to move to new mexico for treatment. They promised that they'd keep in touch, and meant it, but due to unknown reasons the letters the main character sent to him were never returned and they never saw one another again. My guess is that the treatment failed and he didn't survive, or maybe they never made it to new mexico at all.

This is a great, albeit depressing book.
afegit per morgan434 | editaReading the actual book, who else? Me (Apr 17, 2015)
 
What sets the story apart from more run-of-the-mill high-concept novels is Ms. Walker’s decision to recount the unfolding catastrophe from the perspective of Julia, who is on the verge of turning 12. Her voice turns what might have been just a clever mash-up of disaster epic with sensitive young-adult, coming-of-age story into a genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary with impressive fluency and flair.

“The Age of Miracles” is not without its flaws. There are moments when the spell the author has so assiduously created wobbles, and moments when a made-for-Hollywood slickness seeps into the story. Some minor plot developments feel as if they had been created simply for pacing, and Ms. Walker sometimes seems so determined to use Julia’s circumscribed life as a microcosm of the larger world that the reader has to be reminded that “the slowing” is supposedly a planet-altering phenomenon.
afegit per ozzer | editaNYTimes, MICHIKO KAKUTANI (Jun 18, 2012)
 

» Afegeix-hi altres autors

Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Karen Thompson Walkerautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Card, Emily JaniceNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Rankin, EmilyNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Has d'iniciar sessió per poder modificar les dades del coneixement compartit.
Si et cal més ajuda, mira la pàgina d'ajuda del coneixement compartit.
Títol normalitzat
Títol original
Títols alternatius
Data original de publicació
Gent/Personatges
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Llocs importants
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Esdeveniments importants
Pel·lícules relacionades
Epígraf
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Here in the last minutes, the very end of the world,
someone's tightening a screw thinner than an eyelash,
someone with slim wrists is straightening flowers...

Another End of the World, James Richardson
Dedicatòria
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
For my parents and for Casey
Primeres paraules
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
We didn't notice right away.

We did not sense at first the extra time, bulging from the smooth edge of each day like a tumor blooming beneath skin.
Citacions
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words...
Darreres paraules
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
(Clica-hi per mostrar-ho. Compte: pot anticipar-te quin és el desenllaç de l'obra.)
Nota de desambiguació
Editor de l'editorial
Creadors de notes promocionals a la coberta
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Llengua original
CDD/SMD canònics
LCC canònic

Referències a aquesta obra en fonts externes.

Wikipedia en anglès (2)

Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca.

Descripció del llibre
Sumari haiku

Autor amb llibres seus als Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing

El llibre de Karen Thompson Walker The Age of Miracles estava disponible a LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Debats actuals

Cap

Cobertes populars

Dreceres

Valoració

Mitjana: (3.66)
0.5
1 17
1.5 4
2 87
2.5 30
3 316
3.5 102
4 454
4.5 61
5 189

Ets tu?

Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing.

 

Quant a | Contacte | LibraryThing.com | Privadesa/Condicions | Ajuda/PMF | Blog | Botiga | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteques llegades | Crítics Matiners | Coneixement comú | 202,659,406 llibres! | Barra superior: Sempre visible