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.

Rebecca byDame Daphne du Maurier (DBE)

  • Started on: 2011-06-30
  • Finished on: 2011-07-04
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): Historical Fiction

A classic I had never heard of before, but which has been popular the past few week on LT. This is the story of the second wife of Max de Winter, from Manderley, a beautiful country estate in England. His first wife, Rebecca, died a few months earlier while sailing, and Max is heartbroken. But all is not as it seems.
I found the book alright, a bit depressing as so many people seemed to be so unkind to the main character. The pace was slow, and while I know that to be the case with older books, for some reason it made me a slow reader too. But, a pretty nice read, with an, despite everything, slightly unexpected ending.

  • Started on: 2011-06-30
  • Finished on: 2011-07-04
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): Historical Fiction

A classic I had never heard of before, but which has been popular the past few week on LT. This is the story of the second wife of Max de Winter, from Manderley, a beautiful country estate in England. His first wife, Rebecca, died a few months earlier while sailing, and Max is heartbroken. But all is not as it seems.
I found the book alright, a bit depressing as so many people seemed to be so unkind to the main character. The pace was slow, and while I know that to be the case with older books, for some reason it made me a slow reader too. But, a pretty nice read, with an, despite everything, slightly unexpected ending.