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.

De kaart van de tijd by Félix J. Palma

  • Started on: 2011-06-09
  • Finished on: 2011-06-11
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Lately I have been on a time machine reading bender. This book fit right in. It’s London in 1896, and after H. G. Wells has published “The Time Machine” time travel is on everybody’s mind. The three main stories in this book all deal with this. One man wants to prevent the death of the love of his life, one woman wants to escape the life she is supposed to live, and one inspector has to solve a murder with an unknown weapon. In this story many famous real people from the time, such as H. G. Wells, Jack the Ripper, the Elephant Man, Bram Stoker, Henry James and others are mixed with fictional characters, telling a great and believable story about how time travel took over London society. The story is told by an all-knowing narrator who sometimes shows himself, to explain why he is not showing us certain scenes or explaining a bit more about the background of the character.
The three stories are separate, so it seems, but they all belong together, and characters meet, influence each other and interact. Great idea, very original (to me). Five out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2011-06-09
  • Finished on: 2011-06-11
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Lately I have been on a time machine reading bender. This book fit right in. It’s London in 1896, and after H. G. Wells has published “The Time Machine” time travel is on everybody’s mind. The three main stories in this book all deal with this. One man wants to prevent the death of the love of his life, one woman wants to escape the life she is supposed to live, and one inspector has to solve a murder with an unknown weapon. In this story many famous real people from the time, such as H. G. Wells, Jack the Ripper, the Elephant Man, Bram Stoker, Henry James and others are mixed with fictional characters, telling a great and believable story about how time travel took over London society. The story is told by an all-knowing narrator who sometimes shows himself, to explain why he is not showing us certain scenes or explaining a bit more about the background of the character.
The three stories are separate, so it seems, but they all belong together, and characters meet, influence each other and interact. Great idea, very original (to me). Five out of five stars.