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.

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

  • Started on: 2011-01-11
  • Finished on: 2011-01-12
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism

This is my third book by Murakami, but it is very different from the other two (“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “Kafka On The Shore”) I’ve read. This book is ‘just’ a love story, without any magical elements that the other two books had. But that doesn’t make me love the book any less.
Like the other books, Murakami drew me into this story written from the point of view of Watanabe, who is studies in Tokyo in the late sixties. He loves, he loses, he grows up, he discovers himself. It is at times a pretty tragic story, but still beautiful.

  • Started on: 2011-01-11
  • Finished on: 2011-01-12
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism

This is my third book by Murakami, but it is very different from the other two (“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “Kafka On The Shore”) I’ve read. This book is ‘just’ a love story, without any magical elements that the other two books had. But that doesn’t make me love the book any less.
Like the other books, Murakami drew me into this story written from the point of view of Watanabe, who is studies in Tokyo in the late sixties. He loves, he loses, he grows up, he discovers himself. It is at times a pretty tragic story, but still beautiful.