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The Luminaries, 2013, Eleanor Catton

Just as I checked on Amazon when the book was written, I realized it had 853 pages. Reading with the Kindl changes that perception. Even though it was a len...

All the Light we Cannot See, 2014, Anthony Doerr

One of my favorite novels. I read it recently, while in Reunion. And it is one of the most beautiful stories I ever read, it is written in such beautiful pr...

A Fine Balance, 2008, Rohinton Mistry

Phewwww. I’m writing this review more than a month after reading the book. It was a very intense read. I cried my eyes out. This is not easy reading. Emotio...

All the birds in the Sky, 2016, Charlie Jane Anders

This book won the Nebula awards. And was listed finalist for the Hugo Awards. Hm. It was pretty good. Lots of stereotypical narratives, especially the begin...

Children of Time, 2015, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Oh Portia, Bianca, Fabian! You fabulous spiders, inquisitive minds, sensitive souls! Using silk and ants and chemicals, building unprecedented structures! W...

The Broken Earth Trilogy, Book 1 (The Fifth Season, 2015) and Book 2 (The Obelisk Gate, 2016), N. K. Jemisin

I read these two books in no time, and was a little bit happy when I learned that book 3 is not published yet. N. K. Jemisin is an author of feminist sci-fi,...

Binti (2015), Binti Home (2017), The Book of Phoenix (2016), Lagoon (2016), Nnedi Okorafor

During the last months, I have read these four novels by Nnedi Okorafor, and they are all simply amazing. I found recommendations for Nnedi Okorafor on my on...

Ancillary Justice, 2013, Ann Leckie

Wow, this was one of the best books I read in a very long time. Maybe even one of the best books I ever read. It is about the AI of the spaceship Justice of...

When Fox is a Thousand, 1995, Larissa Lai

This was a special read. A pretty unusual book. I would say it falls into the genre of magic realism, and I chose it because I wanted to read a book with a ...

Kafka on the Shore, 2002, Haruki Murakami

After hearing so much about Haruki Murakami as one of the most well-known representative of my favorite genre of magic realism, and as he is also one of the...

The Dispossessed, 1974, Ursula K. Le Guin

This is a beautiful tale about the physicist Shevek, who travelled from Anarres to Urras, from a socialist dystopian/utopian world to a capitalist world with...

The Three Body Problem, Book 3, Death's End, 2016, Cixin Liu

Finally, the translation is here! I was waiting for this book for over a year…. curiously and excitedly, wondering how he is going to finish off this incredi...

The Mount, 2002, Carol Emshwiller

Wow, just finished reading it, started yesterday. What a book! I found it by exploring the genre of feminist science fiction. I guess it is feminist because...

The long way to a small, angry planet, 2015, Becky Chambers

Sweet, funny, original, touching. This is a nice story about Rosemary and the interspecies crew of the tunneling ship Wayfarer. Set on a difficult mission t...

The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969, Ursula Le Guin

After so many recommendations, I finally read a novel by Ursula Le Guin, a science fiction author who has received quite some positive attention, also by re...

What's in a blog...

Apart from the rather obligatory academic lecture, I LOVE reading novels! I read so many novels, my husband gets upset when I start a new one, because he kno...