Timeline (Booktober)

 

"It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, 

scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period."

 

 

 

Michael Crichton isn't USUALLY on my list of reads, although I will admit there are moments. This is one of them. I first saw the movie with Gerard Butler before discovering the book, but then fell in love with it (of course). Who doesn't want to time travel, especially these days? But going back has its own unforeseen dangers and consequences, as the team of intrepid archaeologists and explorers soon discovers. It's bad enough they fall right in the middle of an English - French pow-wow - but what will they do when it becomes clear they've been outplayed, and worse, tricked?

 

 

 

 

In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival -- six hundred years ago.

(from Goodreads)

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The Murder at the Vicarage (Booktober)

Persuasion (Booktober)

The Longest Ride (Booktober)

Midnight Sun (Booktober)

Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Booktober)

The Chronicles of Narnia (Booktober)

Atlantis (Booktober)

Origin (Booktober)

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 Lost Symbol (Booktober)

"Nothing is hidden that will not be made known."

Dan Brown is one of those authors that is easy to read, his books are super quick to run through, and although they sometimes read like a travelogue ... that doesn't mean they aren't fun! Plus, Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon is something you NEED to see. My book pick from his lineup, however, is one that didn't make it on screen. The Lost Symbol kind of has middle child syndrome in the Langdon series, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, probably because it isn't as famous as the others. It also happens in Washington, which I found kind of exciting.

So grab hold of your Mickey Mouse wrist watches, and tag along! Professor Langdon is waiting.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation ... one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom ...

(from Goodreads)

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The Host (Booktober)

The Bridgertons (Booktober)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Booktober)

The Infernal Devices (Booktober)

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (Booktober)

Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Booktober)
Broken Sky (Booktober)

The Shadow of the Wind (Booktober)

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)

Tome Thursday: The Apprentice

Hello everyone!

So for my last book review before my version of booktober begins, I picked an oldie-goldie because I've recently fallen back into the trap of re-reading these yet again.

I also promise there will be info about what's happening in October waiting soon enough, come Monday if all goes well.

For the time being it's still book review hour, which means time to make sure our guns are locked and loaded.

I haven't read any Tess Gerritsen book in a long time actually, and then I went and started reading the second one yet again, which meant I would eventually pick up the rest of the series one more time. When the days turn colder and the rain starts falling, I love picking up a good thriller and munching through it while safely cocooned in a warm blanket.

There's just something so cozy about the scene, isn't it?

Nothing remotely cozy about the book we're reviewing tonight, however.

The Apprentice makes all your worst nightmares come true.

Tome Thursday: See Me

Hello everyone!

Back with a book blog this week, as per usual on Thursdays, and of course, like it happens every once in a while for me, I deviate towards Nicholas Sparks.

Yes, yes, I know.

Why would I do something like that to myself, you ask?

Well, alright, here's the thing: I don't know.

I just generally feel as if my reading experience needs to be completed by reading Sparks novels, although I will admit that I'm not the biggest fan of his newest works, honestly.

I kind of much prefer the books he wrote while he was still married, but considering he had to go through a divorce, I figure I'll cut the guy some slack - but that being said, however, I can still admit to not liking some of his books.

See Me, unfortunately, fell under that category.

Tome Thursday: To The Edge

Hello everyone!

This week, I'm doing a slightly different book from a lot of others you can find on my reading list, but then again you COULD potentially find more of this genre around here if you looked very closely.

After all, bodyguards with haunted pasts that come out of the military service? Can we all say yes, please?

I mean, come on. That's probably the most cliché thing that's ever been invented and written about, but the thing is, people, okay, WOMEN, tend to gobble this up like it's something completely and utterly delicious.

Which is often true, of course.

So when one of my best friends suggested this particular author, Cindy Gerard, because of the fact that her books have all these bodyguard storylines, I have to admit that I was hooked on the description and ran to find the copy of To the Edge, which is the first of this series.

After all, as I keep telling my mother whose tendency it is to buy books in the middle of a series, you have to start at the beginning.

Talkie Tuesday: Inferno

"Cerca trova."

Hello everyone!

Since Sherlock has now finished, and Game of Thrones hasn't begun yet for me to do my weekly blogs with recaps of it, I'm back to reviewing movies, as per usual. 

Now, I do have quite a backlog it would seem, considering the fact that I keep finding other stuff to write about, which sometimes might feel counter-productive, but believe me, with the amount of things I watch just to relax, it's not actually THAT far-fetched I don't think.

Anyway.

I wanted to watch this movie pretty much as soon as it was announced they were filming it, mostly because I have, in fact, enjoyed reading Dan Brown's books with Robert Langdon as the primary character. Also, I've enjoyed watching Tom Hanks on screen, making sure everybody else around him and those watching wonder about what he was talking about half the time.

And while Inferno sounds like something straight out of Hell, it's actually, in my opinion, a tourist guide to Florence.

Tome Thursday: The Surgeon

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a book review, although granted I hadn't actually decided WHICH book I was going to talk about in this blog post tonight until the moment I sat down to type the Twitter announcement.

I'm like that sometimes. I read a lot, but I don't always write EVERYTHING down.

Which means that, sometimes, I can have a difficult moment or two cracking through the piles of information inside my brain and sifting through the lot so that I can find something that would be worth while. And I'm not evn sure I did find it, but oh well.

In any event, because I recently started rereading a few series I'd already finished back in the day, I figured I might as well talk about a book that was very close to mein terms of how well I remember what was going on inside it.

Since I never did make any notes about it, might as well get it out in the open as fast as humanly possible, right?

Right.

And, since I'd already written about one book by the same author, it makes sense. I'm talking about The Surgeon.