Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

  • Started on: 2010-08-31
  • Finished on: 2010-09-01
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Historical Fiction

This is another prize winning book that got mixed responses on LibraryThing. For me it was short but (bitter)sweet. It reads as one long story, divided in a few parts but no chapters. Sometimes the timeline was a bit murky, but the story itself was great. It is about a young woman from Ireland who emigrates to the US, Brooklyn, in the hope of a better life. The move itself is hard, but the choices she faces are even harder. Four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2010-08-31
  • Finished on: 2010-09-01
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Historical Fiction

This is another prize winning book that got mixed responses on LibraryThing. For me it was short but (bitter)sweet. It reads as one long story, divided in a few parts but no chapters. Sometimes the timeline was a bit murky, but the story itself was great. It is about a young woman from Ireland who emigrates to the US, Brooklyn, in the hope of a better life. The move itself is hard, but the choices she faces are even harder. Four out of five stars.