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 Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

  • Started on: 2018-03-22
  • Finished on: 2018-03-23
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

In any forum topic with the question “What book are you waiting for?”, one of the answers inevitably is book 3 of The Kingkiller Chronicles. Together with the next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire this is one of the books I really hope to read someday. The first two The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear gripped me so much I bought them after reading them borrowed from the library. Alas, we have to wait. Luckily The Slow Regard of Silent Things, a novella in the Kingkiller universe, came out a couple of years ago to give us a way to enjoy this world for a bit more.

We follow Auri as she prepares for the arrival of Kvothe in a few days. We see how she sees the world, how her days are filled and how she navigates the world.

This novella reads like a dream, the way Auri sees her world. Her activities for a particular day are led by the feeling of what type of day it is. Objects and locations have as many feelings as people do. And her world, the Underthing, is her own, a part of the abandoned rooms and tunnels under the University.

I loved being back in Temerant, and back with the writing style of Patrick Rothfuss. If you loved The Kingkiller Chronicles, this is a great little nugget. Four out of five stars.

  • Started on: 2018-03-22
  • Finished on: 2018-03-23
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

In any forum topic with the question “What book are you waiting for?”, one of the answers inevitably is book 3 of The Kingkiller Chronicles. Together with the next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire this is one of the books I really hope to read someday. The first two The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear gripped me so much I bought them after reading them borrowed from the library. Alas, we have to wait. Luckily The Slow Regard of Silent Things, a novella in the Kingkiller universe, came out a couple of years ago to give us a way to enjoy this world for a bit more.

We follow Auri as she prepares for the arrival of Kvothe in a few days. We see how she sees the world, how her days are filled and how she navigates the world.

This novella reads like a dream, the way Auri sees her world. Her activities for a particular day are led by the feeling of what type of day it is. Objects and locations have as many feelings as people do. And her world, the Underthing, is her own, a part of the abandoned rooms and tunnels under the University.

I loved being back in Temerant, and back with the writing style of Patrick Rothfuss. If you loved The Kingkiller Chronicles, this is a great little nugget. Four out of five stars.