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.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (FRSL)

  • Started on: 2011-07-09
  • Finished on: 2011-07-10
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

I have been hearing about this book, the diary of a nearly fourteen year old boy in England in the early eighties, for a long time now. I finally found it at my library, so I picked it up. The book is made up of short daily diary entries in which the reader gets to know Adrian Mole. He lives with his parents, who have a rocky marriage, and his dog in England. They’re quite poor, and this is one source of tension in the house. At school he does okay, and he has a girlfriend Pandora, a best friend Nigel, and an old friend Bert, a pensioner who he looks in on every week. Adrian himself is a pretty neurotic boy, always expecting the worse to happen, always calling the doctor to the house for his health problems.
It is a pretty quick and funny read. I know there are many more of Adrian’s diaries published, and I can’t wait to see how he grows up.

  • Started on: 2011-07-09
  • Finished on: 2011-07-10
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

I have been hearing about this book, the diary of a nearly fourteen year old boy in England in the early eighties, for a long time now. I finally found it at my library, so I picked it up. The book is made up of short daily diary entries in which the reader gets to know Adrian Mole. He lives with his parents, who have a rocky marriage, and his dog in England. They’re quite poor, and this is one source of tension in the house. At school he does okay, and he has a girlfriend Pandora, a best friend Nigel, and an old friend Bert, a pensioner who he looks in on every week. Adrian himself is a pretty neurotic boy, always expecting the worse to happen, always calling the doctor to the house for his health problems.
It is a pretty quick and funny read. I know there are many more of Adrian’s diaries published, and I can’t wait to see how he grows up.