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.

Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome by John Scalzi

  • Started on: 2018-02-12
  • Finished on: 2018-02-12
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

One of my favorite writers is John Scalzi, both for the novels he writes, as for his online personality. I follow his blog and Twitter feed and just really enjoy his style. A while back I read the first novel in his series Lock In, about a disease (Haden’s Syndrome) which causes a lot of people to be “locked in”: fully paralyzed, unable to move, but awake at the same time. Society deals with this by developing a digital solution so these “Haden’s” can live and work. This novella describes the start of Haden’s Syndrome and the research and reactions surrounding those first days.

  • Started on: 2018-02-12
  • Finished on: 2018-02-12
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: *****
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

One of my favorite writers is John Scalzi, both for the novels he writes, as for his online personality. I follow his blog and Twitter feed and just really enjoy his style. A while back I read the first novel in his series Lock In, about a disease (Haden’s Syndrome) which causes a lot of people to be “locked in”: fully paralyzed, unable to move, but awake at the same time. Society deals with this by developing a digital solution so these “Haden’s” can live and work. This novella describes the start of Haden’s Syndrome and the research and reactions surrounding those first days.