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 Chrysalids by John Wyndham

  • Started on: 2014-12-21
  • Finished on: 2014-12-21
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

Incredibly misleading cover. No aliens, but a post-apocalyptical future after a (nuclear?) war, where deviatans, plants animals and humans that are different from normal are destroyed. Telepathic children have to flee and are saved by other telepathic humans from far away.

  • Started on: 2014-12-21
  • Finished on: 2014-12-21
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

Incredibly misleading cover. No aliens, but a post-apocalyptical future after a (nuclear?) war, where deviatans, plants animals and humans that are different from normal are destroyed. Telepathic children have to flee and are saved by other telepathic humans from far away.