Showing posts with label DaVinci Code. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DaVinci Code. Show all posts

Monday, October 28, 2013

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? October 28th Edition

2aHaven't hopped on this linky in a while because I felt like I was always saying the same books!  And I'm kind of in this weird thing of reading like four different books at once...but they're all different and for different settings and moods which is how I justify it I guess.  I use to be a strict one book at a time girl....but I guess that's when I read faster.

1. 1984 by George Orwell--This one is for school.  The kids are really really enjoying it so far, and I'm liking the second go around.

2. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult--This one is my audio book for the car...it turned into an unexpected historical fiction book and I'm really liking it!

3. Divergent by Veronica Roth--This was on sale last week on my Kindle and I just barely got started....I am excited to keep reading. My students are loving this book right now and I want to find out what the hub-bub is about.

4. What DaVinci Didn't Know: An LDS Perspective by Andrew C. Skinner, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, and Thomas A. Wayment--I downloaded this from Deseret Book after I finally finished DaVinci Code because this is one of those books where you wonder how much of this is true and how much of this was created for the book.  I often don't end up reading non-fiction books often with feeling like I do that all the time for work--more like college...but I think I'm getting over that.  This is pretty well written.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Book Review: The DaVinci Code

This is a typical feature on this blog...but also fits into the Tuesday Blogtember post that I skipped this week. So this is a great double blog post....because I didn't post yesterday. Yesterday I ended up with no ability to do a blog post...and I really should have scheduled one earlier, but I didn't get time :( But this is what I did instead of writing...reading :) I finally finished this book!

Title: The DaVinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Drama
Rating: 4 out of 5

Why Did I Read? Well...I read Angels and Demons and this is the next book :)

Summary: Robert Langdon is now thrust into yet another controversy as he visits Paris.  While in Paris, he is scheduled for a meeting with a curator at the Louve.  However, that appointment doesn't end up happening because the curator is murdered. While dying, the curator leaves a message that ends up implicating Langdon in his murder, but also leaves a message that grabs his granddaughter's attention. Sophie, his granddaughter, ends up starting a treasure hunt with Langdon that ends up becoming a quest for the Holy Grail.

What Did I Love: I love how Brown really twists the story around.  Even though I had read this before, I had forgotten about some of the twists and turns that he takes the story through.  He is a great storyteller.

What Did I Hate: Hmm.....I honestly can't think of anything....does that mean I should give it a 5? ;)

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