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.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  • Started on: 2010-10-02
  • Finished on: 2010-10-03
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

Again a book I would never have known of if not for LibraryThing. The subject matter is quite depressing as this book is about a dystopian future where books are forbidden. If you are found to own books firemen come and burn your house down. But the people don’t care, they don’t even want to read, to feel anything negative. The book follows one firemen who starts to realize what he is actually doing and starts to think for himself. Not very uplifting but despite it’s age still (depressingly) accurate. Five out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2010-10-02
  • Finished on: 2010-10-03
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

Again a book I would never have known of if not for LibraryThing. The subject matter is quite depressing as this book is about a dystopian future where books are forbidden. If you are found to own books firemen come and burn your house down. But the people don’t care, they don’t even want to read, to feel anything negative. The book follows one firemen who starts to realize what he is actually doing and starts to think for himself. Not very uplifting but despite it’s age still (depressingly) accurate. Five out of five stars.