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.

Mort by Terry Pratchett

  • Started on: 2013-08-09
  • Finished on: 2013-08-12
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Humor

Another book in the Discworld series, the fourth (by order of release). This time focusing on a few new characters (although Rincewind makes an appearance), mainly Death and Mort, his apprentice. Death is like you’d imagine him, skeletal in a black robe with a scythe. He picks up Mort at a job fair where he is left as the last one without an apprenticeship. Death starts training him, and while Mort falls in love with somebody who is supposed to die, Death tries out human living.
The book is filled with Pratchett humor, the absurd logic and references to our world. I really like his style, and this book delivered. A great and fun little read, four out of four stars.

  • Started on: 2013-08-09
  • Finished on: 2013-08-12
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Humor

Another book in the Discworld series, the fourth (by order of release). This time focusing on a few new characters (although Rincewind makes an appearance), mainly Death and Mort, his apprentice. Death is like you’d imagine him, skeletal in a black robe with a scythe. He picks up Mort at a job fair where he is left as the last one without an apprenticeship. Death starts training him, and while Mort falls in love with somebody who is supposed to die, Death tries out human living.
The book is filled with Pratchett humor, the absurd logic and references to our world. I really like his style, and this book delivered. A great and fun little read, four out of four stars.