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.

First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

  • Started on: 2011-04-21
  • Finished on: 2011-04-23
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

This is the fifth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. I was a bit apprehensive about reading it, mainly because my memory for book plots and characters is so bad, and this series has some seriously weird things going on. So much so that I didn’t know if this book would be as much fun as the others were.
Luckily I was mistaken, the book was another great read by Fforde. It is about fifteen years after the last book. Thursday leads a respectable life now that SpecOPs is closed down. Or is she? The adventure that follows is absurdly great (England is suffering from a stupidity excess, cheese is still being smuggled, etc.).
Without giving too much away, I loved the new theories, the new characters, the famous characters that come by, and the ending that left room for more Thursday Next books. Anybody who loved the previous books will love this one.

  • Started on: 2011-04-21
  • Finished on: 2011-04-23
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

This is the fifth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. I was a bit apprehensive about reading it, mainly because my memory for book plots and characters is so bad, and this series has some seriously weird things going on. So much so that I didn’t know if this book would be as much fun as the others were.
Luckily I was mistaken, the book was another great read by Fforde. It is about fifteen years after the last book. Thursday leads a respectable life now that SpecOPs is closed down. Or is she? The adventure that follows is absurdly great (England is suffering from a stupidity excess, cheese is still being smuggled, etc.).
Without giving too much away, I loved the new theories, the new characters, the famous characters that come by, and the ending that left room for more Thursday Next books. Anybody who loved the previous books will love this one.