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.

Afgang by J. J. Voskuil

  • Started on: 2011-06-01
  • Finished on: 2011-06-05
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This is the sixth book in the “Het Bureau” series, the autobiographical story of Voskuil’s working life. In this part, the institute’s director retires, there is a political struggle to determine who will replace him, several people close to Maarten and Nicolien die, and at the end of the book, Maarten retires himself.
The book, like the last one, focusses more and more on Maarten’s personal life, and his emotional reactions to his working life. The subjects, the papers, articles and conferences are not as important as they were in the beginning, which makes the book a lot more readable. Other than that this is a continuation of the previous five books, and I really liked it. Four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2011-06-01
  • Finished on: 2011-06-05
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This is the sixth book in the “Het Bureau” series, the autobiographical story of Voskuil’s working life. In this part, the institute’s director retires, there is a political struggle to determine who will replace him, several people close to Maarten and Nicolien die, and at the end of the book, Maarten retires himself.
The book, like the last one, focusses more and more on Maarten’s personal life, and his emotional reactions to his working life. The subjects, the papers, articles and conferences are not as important as they were in the beginning, which makes the book a lot more readable. Other than that this is a continuation of the previous five books, and I really liked it. Four out of five stars.