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.

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (OBE, FRSA, FRSL)

  • Started on: 2011-03-29
  • Finished on: 2011-03-30
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This is the first book by Ishiguro, and because I read and loved some of his other works, I picked up this one. Reading it, it seems pretty straight forward, the story of a Japanese woman living in the UK, remembering a summer just after the war in Nagasaki. But the friend she describes is very strange, antisocial almost, and the child too. And in the end, just a few lines, a few words make you doubt all you read and see the story in a whole new light. Wow. Another one I loved very much.

  • Started on: 2011-03-29
  • Finished on: 2011-03-30
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This is the first book by Ishiguro, and because I read and loved some of his other works, I picked up this one. Reading it, it seems pretty straight forward, the story of a Japanese woman living in the UK, remembering a summer just after the war in Nagasaki. But the friend she describes is very strange, antisocial almost, and the child too. And in the end, just a few lines, a few words make you doubt all you read and see the story in a whole new light. Wow. Another one I loved very much.