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.  

Group meeting

We had our group meeting this Wednesday. It went well and we covered much during 40 minutes.
I think I made it a bit hard for my group because I was behind our schedule. I mixed up pages we were suppose too read.

But as I said, we covered a lot during our meeting. We talked  about different theories about what we thought would happen too Julia and her family and as well the earth. I think Julia's father will mess up his relationship with her mother. Julia will try too make things better with Seth and maybe she will accomplish that. I also think that earth will pick up it's pace and everything will maybe become normal but don't for Julia. Because of her parents.

We also talked about different "scenes" from the book. For example when Seth took Julia to a patch of grass were they laid down and held hands. Until Julia started talking about Seth mum. Seth got mad and said that she should never mention his mothers name ever again, and he stormed of.
I think they will be together, it's almost obvious. She will at least become friends with him again.

In the beginning of our meeting Anna was asked too explain the difference between real time and clock time. She made it clear for everyone what it is and how it works.
 
I hope the book ends well.

POV

There is so many thing going on right now. Dads affair with Sylvia. My "best" friend Hannah and the slowing increasing all the time.

The other day I spied on Sylvia and saw her kissing a person. When I tried to get a better look at this person she as kissing I was I'm for a shock. It was dad. Why? Isn't he happy with mom? I feel so bad for mom. All this extra time dad said he had worked, was he spending that time with Sylvia instead of working? I just don't understand why. I hope things work out between my parents. 

Then there is Hannah. She left for Utah and came back, too be with Tracey. It feels like she has forgotten me. I mean, we were best friend until she left and only called me too say goodbye. I was expecting maybe a bit more from a my best friend. I wish too get her back. If I were to be honest, I really don't like Tracey. She stole Hannah from me. 

And Seth. I though for a second that we maybe, just maybe was starting some kind of friendship until I totally messed up by talking about his mom. He has ignored me, and I feel bad. 

So I have lost my best friend and Seth. 

The slowing keeps increasing. What ever extraterrestrial brakes that slows the earth down, I really want them too let earth spin in its own rhythm. Everything and everyone gets confused with clock time and real time. Everything is hard right now. But I can't do more then hope for the best, for me and for the earth. 

Why I chose The Age Of Miracles

I "chose" The Age Of Miracle because I think these kinds of disasters are interesting too learn/read about. I didn’t really know what it was about when I picked it because I overslept before the lesson, when we were suppose to chose books. So I just took it and it turned out too be something I'm interested in.  

I think the book started a bit slow but after a while it starts to get more and more interesting. The book is so far very intriguing but I don’t really know what I think will happen later in the book.