Dan Brown’s eagerly anticipated new novel returns with Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon exploring the mysteries of the Freemasons. Langdon is called to Washington D.C. to deliver a lecture but he arrives to find that his close friend has been kidnapped and in order to save his life Langdon must cooperate with the kidnapper to solve an ancient mystery.
This book kept me up until 1 a.m. on a work night, which is extremely rare for me. I was fascinated with the history, the architecture, the symbols, the science, – everything. The plot was not what was most important to me. It was everything else that Brown uncovered in his research that was most fascinating.
Brown has hit the jackpot again. Look for a movie in the future and increased tourism in Washington D.C.
Highly recommended!
It’s 1864 in Virginia City, Nevada Territory. Statehood is in the future for Nevada and Gil Ross is sent by the government to inspect the potential wealth of the region. Ross, a former magazine writer and now a mine inspector quickly becomes embroiled in the violence and treachery of the region.
When Laurel Hawthorne sees the ghost of Molly, her daughter’s best friend, leading her to Molly’s body in Laurel’s backyard pool, Laurel’s comfortable life in gated Victorianna gets turned upside down. Laurel will need to confront the dark secrets of her past including her relationship with her parents, her wacky sister Thalia, and her distant husband.
A friend told me that I just had to read Dan Millman’s “Way of the Peaceful Warrior.” Millman, who wrote this book in 1980, tells the story of his encounter with Socrates, an old man who works at an all-night gas station. Millman, who at the time was a college student and world-class gymnast, felt that something was missing from his life. His encounter with Socrates, a peaceful warrior, changes Millman’s life and has inspired countless others.