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.

Kleine Bij by Chris Cleave

  • Started on: 2011-07-27
  • Finished on: 2011-07-28
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

The gimmick of this book is that the publisher won’t tell you what this book is about. They say it is a story of two women, a story that is funny, touching and shocking. I’ll try not to give too much away of the story, except that it is about a Nigerian refugee who comes to the United Kingdom, and a British woman who has met her before.
The story of Little Bee, the Nigerian girl is anything but funny. The whole story was in fact incredibly tragic, but powerful. I don’t know what else to say about this book. Read it. But now I do need something less serious to cheer me up. Four out of five stars

  • Started on: 2011-07-27
  • Finished on: 2011-07-28
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

The gimmick of this book is that the publisher won’t tell you what this book is about. They say it is a story of two women, a story that is funny, touching and shocking. I’ll try not to give too much away of the story, except that it is about a Nigerian refugee who comes to the United Kingdom, and a British woman who has met her before.
The story of Little Bee, the Nigerian girl is anything but funny. The whole story was in fact incredibly tragic, but powerful. I don’t know what else to say about this book. Read it. But now I do need something less serious to cheer me up. Four out of five stars