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.

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

  • Started on: 2011-05-20
  • Finished on: 2011-05-22
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, General Fiction

This book is by one of my favorite writers, David Mitchell. I love his magical realism in books like Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. But this book was different, nothing magical happening here. This is a book about a boy in England, thirteen years old. He stammers, he is bullied, and at home, his parent are having a rough time, and he is discovering who he is. In thirteen chapters, different happenings in his life are told. In the end they form a whole, forming this boy into a fourteen year old.
Even though this book is different from the last two books by Mitchell I have read, and indeed different from what I had expected, I really enjoyed it. Sometimes the story was a bit disorderly, but then again, it is told by a thirteen year old, and his mind is racing a mile a minute. A very nice read, four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2011-05-20
  • Finished on: 2011-05-22
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, General Fiction

This book is by one of my favorite writers, David Mitchell. I love his magical realism in books like Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. But this book was different, nothing magical happening here. This is a book about a boy in England, thirteen years old. He stammers, he is bullied, and at home, his parent are having a rough time, and he is discovering who he is. In thirteen chapters, different happenings in his life are told. In the end they form a whole, forming this boy into a fourteen year old.
Even though this book is different from the last two books by Mitchell I have read, and indeed different from what I had expected, I really enjoyed it. Sometimes the story was a bit disorderly, but then again, it is told by a thirteen year old, and his mind is racing a mile a minute. A very nice read, four out of five stars.