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 Kraai by Kader Abdolah

  • Started on: 2011-03-17
  • Finished on: 2011-03-17
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This years ‘week of the book’ is about writer (auto-)biographies, and the gift is written by Dutch-Iranian writer Kader Abdolah. The story of De kraai (The Crow) is about a refugee from Iran who lives in Amsterdam and tells about his life and how he became a writer, first in Persian, later in Dutch.
The book is short, only 91 pages (all bookweek gifts are) but the story doesn’t feel rushed. It is a very nicely written story, describing the beauty of Iran, the hardships of the flight and the life in The Netherlands well without being able to go into detail.

  • Started on: 2011-03-17
  • Finished on: 2011-03-17
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This years ‘week of the book’ is about writer (auto-)biographies, and the gift is written by Dutch-Iranian writer Kader Abdolah. The story of De kraai (The Crow) is about a refugee from Iran who lives in Amsterdam and tells about his life and how he became a writer, first in Persian, later in Dutch.
The book is short, only 91 pages (all bookweek gifts are) but the story doesn’t feel rushed. It is a very nicely written story, describing the beauty of Iran, the hardships of the flight and the life in The Netherlands well without being able to go into detail.