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.

De erfenis van het verlies by Kiran Desai

  • Started on: 2011-01-24
  • Finished on: 2011-01-26
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

Another Booker Prize winner, 2006. The book, set in India and partly the US deals with identity, and how immigration, colonization and shifting borders provide difficulties for the main characters in finding and keeping their identity, even generations later. This all comes to head in Kalimpong, where the Gurkhas fight for their own country. In this turmoil Say (an Indian girl, with a grandfather, the judge, who went to England for education and hasn’t felt Indian ever since) falls in love with a Nepali boy, and Biju (a Nepali boy, son of the judge’s cook) tries to make it as an illegal in the US.
A very tragic but well written and good story. I am glad I read it, but I do need to find something a bit more uplifting to read in the coming weeks.

  • Started on: 2011-01-24
  • Finished on: 2011-01-26
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

Another Booker Prize winner, 2006. The book, set in India and partly the US deals with identity, and how immigration, colonization and shifting borders provide difficulties for the main characters in finding and keeping their identity, even generations later. This all comes to head in Kalimpong, where the Gurkhas fight for their own country. In this turmoil Say (an Indian girl, with a grandfather, the judge, who went to England for education and hasn’t felt Indian ever since) falls in love with a Nepali boy, and Biju (a Nepali boy, son of the judge’s cook) tries to make it as an illegal in the US.
A very tragic but well written and good story. I am glad I read it, but I do need to find something a bit more uplifting to read in the coming weeks.