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.

Im Verborgenen by John Ajvide Lindqvist

  • Started on: 2010-11-24
  • Finished on: 2010-12-07
  • Read in: German
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Horror

One of my favorite writers is John Ajvide Lindqvist, a Swedish writer of horror that takes familiar images and writes very original stories. His most famous work is ‘Let the Right One In’ about a lonely vampire girl. ‘Handling the Undead’ about the reaction to loved ones returning from the dead as zombies is another good one. As I don’t read Swedish I always have to wait for translations of his work to become available. I have two in English, one in Dutch, and when I saw this one, a collection of stories in German I just had to have it.
I read German reasonably well. I can say I got the gist of the stories but do want this collection at a later date in Dutch or English. The stories were great, dealing with trolls, curses, (beating) death and the finale was a follow-up novella to Handling the Undead. Great stories in true Lindqvist style. Four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2010-11-24
  • Finished on: 2010-12-07
  • Read in: German
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Horror

One of my favorite writers is John Ajvide Lindqvist, a Swedish writer of horror that takes familiar images and writes very original stories. His most famous work is ‘Let the Right One In’ about a lonely vampire girl. ‘Handling the Undead’ about the reaction to loved ones returning from the dead as zombies is another good one. As I don’t read Swedish I always have to wait for translations of his work to become available. I have two in English, one in Dutch, and when I saw this one, a collection of stories in German I just had to have it.
I read German reasonably well. I can say I got the gist of the stories but do want this collection at a later date in Dutch or English. The stories were great, dealing with trolls, curses, (beating) death and the finale was a follow-up novella to Handling the Undead. Great stories in true Lindqvist style. Four out of five stars.