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Tekijä: A. S. King

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Science Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig.
Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her "Solution Time" class won't solve the world's problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda's got a crow bar, and one way or another, she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch.… (lisätietoja)
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This book is unlike anything I've ever read. Is it a poem? A stream of consciousness? A YA novel? It's all of the above, all at once. Switch is not something that makes sense right off the bat, so jump in with the understanding that you'll need to give it about 50 pages to sync up with the flow of the storytelling style. But don't worry - those pages will fly by. The writing style uses brief sentences / unconventional punctuation / grabs the reader / heals the writer. (That's an example of how certain passages are written, if that wasn't implied clearly enough.) The whole novel isn't like that, and after the initial chapters, the seemingly sporadic train of thought backs off a little and the story begins to emerge more clearly. It's a perfect book for our time, written to help the author navigate a personal tragedy that somehow aligned with the world's need to step back as well. I highly recommend reading the author's Bookpage interview after finishing, as it helped me settle some lingering questions about her thematic intentions. ( )
  HannahKP | Aug 10, 2021 |
Surrealistic is one thing. Downright strange is an abstract horse of a different color. For all the King fans out there, yeah I “get it.” Switch is about isolation and human connection.” I wish I could say I liked this novel on some level, but that would be an utter lie. I was totally confused in the first third of the book. To the extent that when the “Eureka” moments finally came, I was more perturbed than impressed/sated. Even the repetitive writing that is apparently meant to be artistic is downright irritating in spots.
Give the author credit for attempting to develop an intriguing premise: a world where time stops. I also admit that there are some genuinely humorous moments. But in the end, it’s like that one long and convoluted joke told at the Thanksgiving dinner table by an out-of-touch uncle. Even a solid punchline doesn’t make the time expended worth it.
Sorry, but no more A.S. King for me. ( )
  brianinbuffalo | Jun 30, 2021 |
My feelings are kind of mixed with this book. I have read one other book by A.S. King in the past and enjoyed her work so I was eager to give this one a try. This was a strange book. Very readable but strange. It was a shorter book and I flew through it. I did enjoy the book but I found it to be a lot more abstract than I expected it to be.

Truda lives in a world where time has stopped. The world has adapted but everyone is still searching for something that will get time moving again. All schools are now requiring a class where students will work on theories to solve the time problem. At home, Tru’s father spends his days crafting their home into a series of boxes while Tru just wants her mom to come home. Soon Tru discovers that she can throw a javelin further than anyone ever has and the rooms in her house are all turned on their side. It seems that everything in the world is off-kilter and needs a jump start to get back on track.

I kept waiting for everything to fall into place and start making sense but I think that the message in this book wasn’t as clear cut as I had hoped it would be. The writing style was also quite different with a lot of sentence fragments which I think worked within this story quite well but it did take some time to get used to. I didn’t really connect with any of the characters in this story but I felt compelled to keep reading just to see how time would get moving again.

I am glad that I read this book and I think that it could work well for some readers but others may have some trouble with it. This is a different kind of story and I found it to be quite imaginative. I wouldn’t hesitate to read more from A.S. King in the future.

I received a copy of this book from the Penguin Teen via Bookish First. ( )
  Carolesrandomlife | Jun 6, 2021 |
I tried...

The concept of this book is pretty fascinating - a world where time has abruptly stopped on 23rd June, 2020. An usual story, which could not hold my attention for long. Around 60-70 pages in I realised this book is not my cup of tea and could not read any further. The narration got confusing at times too. However, this book gives you a chance to have a different perspective about time itself. The psychology project of the protagonist associated time with different emotions, experimenting on her friends. The house described is strange and gives a very uneasy feeling. On the other hand, the mention of isolation period is something we all can relate to. Notwithstanding that I could not form a connection with this book. It was rather dull, technical and slow for me. The characters are interesting with back stories but the characterisation seemed weak. Not a book I would recommend. ( )
  sanyazulfiqarmithani | Jun 2, 2021 |
"It is, and has been, June 23, 2020, for nine months now....Time has stopped. We are being held for ransom / no one knows what the ransom is / who to give it to" (p. 1). High school junior Truda Becker lives in a strange house with a strange family during a very strange year (day?). All the clocks in the world stopped at once, and students have been assigned a Solution Time project while everyone proceeds as normal with N3WCLOCK, which tells what day/time it would be. Truda's project has to do with Plutchick's Clock, a colored wheel of eight emotions: feeling time, rather than clock time. Truda thinks that people not caring about each other is what stopped time, and getting them to "give a shit" about each other will restart it. Meanwhile, her family is disintegrating, largely because of her sociopathic older sister, and her father's refusal to discuss emotions; instead, he builds boxes around boxes around boxes to keep everyone separate, and to keep them all away from the mysterious switch in their house. (One of King's earlier books, Reality Boy, also features a psychopathic older sister, although in Switch, the sister is unnamed and off the page, except in memories.) In this pause in time, Truda, and a few other kids worldwide, has developed anomalous abilities; in her case, the ability to throw a javelin a record-breaking distance. Truda muses on the nature of time, referring often to Zeno's quote, "If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless."

Like all A.S. King books for teens, this one requires, and rewards, work from the reader and trust in the author. And, though King couldn't have known about the coronavirus pandemic when she wrote Switch, she dedicated the novel to the class of 2020.

Quotes

I refuse to pretend that N3WCLOCK is the solution to being in a fold in time and space, though. Solution Time was not invented so we could find new ways to lie to ourselves.
I'm looking for the Real Solution.
I think it has something to do with giving a shit about people. (2)

[Javelins] teach me how to fly through time when no time exists. (7)

To understand anything is to understand energy. (repeated throughout)

Not caring is the gunpowder. (25)

In order: Mama left / he quit his job / time stopped. The order is important, I think. (38)

...I could simply feel my feelings when they happened / not be ashamed to have them / move on with my life. (re: Plutchik's Clock, 106)

But what we overlook when we ignore talking about emotions in day-to-day life is that there is survival in Joy or Anger. In all of our emotions / if we listen. (106)

Unexpected event --> questioning what it is --> stop --> gain time to orient.
...
I know what's wrong with time.
Time was surprised.
So it just stopped in order to orient. (109)

I am surrounded by skeptics while time has stopped and there is no solution. The same people will go to church on Sunday and pray to an invisible man. (114)

Time is on strike
because it was tired
of how much of it
we've wasted
on bitchy bullshit. (144)

I wanted to be powerful enough to change things / people giving a shit about people / find the truth. That's what I asked for. I got this instead. (156)

No one used the fold in time and space as an opportunity for growth mindset / for learning new recipes / taking naps / visiting anywhere they hadn't been before. No solutions were coming out of any classroom other than to hide the problem / make new time just like the old time. (169)

No one can define normal / anomalies are impossible with no control group. (179)

The minute they put us in [the high school] building we're expected to be something we aren't. Interested / engaged / athletic / baby grown-ups with the will to be social and succeed in life. The building acts factory / as if it can turn out capable adults, and it will. (182)

The only thing anomalous about me / Truda Becker / is that it took me too long to show anyone what I was made of / now they think I'm made of magic. (183)

"I was scared. I really thought I might be what everyone said I was." (Richard, 203)

x equals me knowing what the switch is.
x equals not knowing what to do about it. (210)

"You can't just start over."
"You can if you want to, You can do anything you want to." (Richard and Mama, 211) ( )
  JennyArch | May 31, 2021 |
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Science Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig.
Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her "Solution Time" class won't solve the world's problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda's got a crow bar, and one way or another, she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch.

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