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.

Possession byDame A. S. Byatt

  • Started on: 2011-04-29
  • Finished on: 2011-05-02
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

I discovered A.S. Byatt last year, with The Children’s Book, and I read everywhere that Possession is her other classic. I picked it up last year, but it took me forever to get to it. I don’t know what kept me, but I am glad I finally read it. It took me a while to get into the book. Even though I have been reading more and more Victorian fiction, Victorian poetry is still too much for me. But luckily after a little while the mystery and the scientific search took over and drew me in. I loved how the story was told through poems (even though I didn’t get half of it), letters, diaries and later on some fiction from the era. I also loved the cross over between the Victorian era story and the modern day romance. I didn’t like the American characters, I guess they were just too loud for the rest of the English characters.
For lovers of the works of Byatt, I highly recommend this book.

  • Started on: 2011-04-29
  • Finished on: 2011-05-02
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

I discovered A.S. Byatt last year, with The Children’s Book, and I read everywhere that Possession is her other classic. I picked it up last year, but it took me forever to get to it. I don’t know what kept me, but I am glad I finally read it. It took me a while to get into the book. Even though I have been reading more and more Victorian fiction, Victorian poetry is still too much for me. But luckily after a little while the mystery and the scientific search took over and drew me in. I loved how the story was told through poems (even though I didn’t get half of it), letters, diaries and later on some fiction from the era. I also loved the cross over between the Victorian era story and the modern day romance. I didn’t like the American characters, I guess they were just too loud for the rest of the English characters.
For lovers of the works of Byatt, I highly recommend this book.