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.

Haar naam was Sarah by Tatiana de Rosnay

  • Started on: 2011-03-09
  • Finished on: 2011-03-09
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This book is very popular at the moment here in the Netherlands. It tells the dual story of a girl who gets deported from Paris in 1942, and the American woman in 2002 who is moving into the apartment where the girl lived and is researching what happened during that razzia (of Vel’ d’Hiv’) and afterwards, while her marriage is on the rocks.
I thought the two stories were interwoven very well, and even though it isn’t logical I can see why Sarah’s story gripped Julia so much. Despite the tragedy a wonderful book.

  • Started on: 2011-03-09
  • Finished on: 2011-03-09
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This book is very popular at the moment here in the Netherlands. It tells the dual story of a girl who gets deported from Paris in 1942, and the American woman in 2002 who is moving into the apartment where the girl lived and is researching what happened during that razzia (of Vel’ d’Hiv’) and afterwards, while her marriage is on the rocks.
I thought the two stories were interwoven very well, and even though it isn’t logical I can see why Sarah’s story gripped Julia so much. Despite the tragedy a wonderful book.