Origin (Booktober)

 

"Nature was once the core. For all of us."

 

 

 

When Dan Brown first published The Da Vinci Code way back when, he probably had no idea just how popular it - and Robert Langdon - would become. Bolstered by the performance of Tom Hanks, the series continues in Origin, a Spain-based novel filled with the usual Brown ingredients: mystery, fast-paced chases, and some added information for tourists and historical students alike. And at the end, it's Langdon against an unseen foe yet again. What more do you need on a rainy fall afternoon?

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch.

(from Goodreads)

 

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Quo Vadis (Booktober)

Death on the Nile (Booktober)

The Little White Horse (Booktober)

The Sign of Four (Booktober)

Harry Potter #2 (Booktober)

Troublemaker (Booktober)

The Lord of the Rings (Booktober)

The Shadow of the Wind (Booktober)

"Soon afterward, like figures made of steam, father and son disappear into 

the crowd of the Ramblas, their steps lost forever in the shadow of the wind."

 

Carlos Ruiz Zafon is the kind of author that I probably never would have picked up if someone hadn't recommended him. But I ended up reading his Shadow of the Wind and INHALING it. The tragic story of a doomed couple interspaced with a tale of growing into adulthood by the boy who initially starts the research is so well done, and the terrible ending still gives me chills today. It's one of those things you just can't read too many times, or you might even go a little bit mad yourself ... 

All in all, however, when the wind picks up to blow through the streets of old Barcelona, this is the book to read.

Barcelona, 1945. Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. And before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love ...

(from Goodreads)

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Dracula (Booktober)

Life and Death (Booktober)

ACOTAR series (Booktober)

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Booktober)

Sepulchre (Booktober)

Pride and Prejudice (Booktober)

Tempting Autumn (Booktober)

Harry Potter (Booktober)

The Hobbit (Booktober)