Week 8

I have written about similarities and differences between my book and Anton's book.

Anton - Life as we knew it
When I read Anton's blog I immediately saw a similarity between my book and his. He has written about the lack of action and that he expected more natural catastrophes. Everybody in that group seemed  to agree, that it wasn't really what they thought it would be. 
When I hadn't started reading my book, The age of miracles, I expected a lot of catastrophes. On the cover it says "An invisible catastrophe" and that was one of the things that caught my eye.
It started slow and in fact a bit boring. After a while things started too happen with Julia, her family and Seth for example. But still there was not so much of natural catastrophes that I had expected when I picked the book. So both of us seemed too miss the lack of action during the catastrophes in the books.

The two books  seem to be quite the same. Maybe one difference is that Julia (my book) retells the story. She looks back from when she was 11, and in the end jumps forward in time too the age she "is" now. I don't think Anton's book is told in the same way as mine.

But still I think our books are relatively equal. They are both about a family and told from one of the family members point of view and both books include a catastrophe. But the storyline is not really the same.

Group meeting

We had our second group meeting this Wednesday and talked about the different excerpts we had picked out from the book. I chose; "It amazes me how little we really knew...maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much."

I don't think anyone in my group understood my explanation why I chose this part and how I 

connected with it. But I will explain as good as I can. 

I chose it because I can relate to things I have heard and indeed thought about myself.

Like Julia asks herself, if her and her family had something to do with the slowing. I truly believe that the human will force itself too move to another planet. They talked about that in the book, trying to build a spaceship that would save the earths memory. 

My thoughts just evolved more and more the longer I thought about it. I went a bit philosophical. 

I said to the group that we all think we are special, but in fact we are only a tiny drop in the ocean. And while we are stuck here on earth killing our only lifeline, there is so much beyond what we can see. We know very little, as julia thought; it amazes me how little we know..."

All in all our meeting went well. We discussed the end of the book and everyone was prepared.