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 gouden appels van de zon by Ray Bradbury

  • Started on: 2012-03-06
  • Finished on: 2012-03-06
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

I read Fahrenheit 451 a while ago and loved it, and with my new obsession with collecting old science fiction, I couldn’t resist this book by him, especially not with the wonderful title of ‘The Golden Apples of the Sun’.
This is a short story collection, not containing any novellas or stories over 15 pages long. I always find it difficult to review such a collection as some stories are better than others. Overall I really liked the book and read it all in almost one sitting. There are some science fiction stories (about time and space travel), some about the future, and some that are just about the here and now, and that seem to have a different message. To me it stood out that some stories that weren’t fantasy/science fiction were about racism, both against African-Americans (The Big Black and White Game) and Latino’s (Sun and Shadow). Some other stories seemed almost like fairy tales (The Flying Machine, The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind). All in all this was a very good collection, and I am happy that I have more by Bradbury in my to-be-read pile. Four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2012-03-06
  • Finished on: 2012-03-06
  • Read in: Dutch
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

I read Fahrenheit 451 a while ago and loved it, and with my new obsession with collecting old science fiction, I couldn’t resist this book by him, especially not with the wonderful title of ‘The Golden Apples of the Sun’.
This is a short story collection, not containing any novellas or stories over 15 pages long. I always find it difficult to review such a collection as some stories are better than others. Overall I really liked the book and read it all in almost one sitting. There are some science fiction stories (about time and space travel), some about the future, and some that are just about the here and now, and that seem to have a different message. To me it stood out that some stories that weren’t fantasy/science fiction were about racism, both against African-Americans (The Big Black and White Game) and Latino’s (Sun and Shadow). Some other stories seemed almost like fairy tales (The Flying Machine, The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind). All in all this was a very good collection, and I am happy that I have more by Bradbury in my to-be-read pile. Four out of five stars.