Quotes from "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown

This book had been lying in my cupboard for a long time, and I finally felt myself in the right mood to read it. I really enjoyed it, and really regret not reading it earlier.

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‘Five kilometers to the lab,’ the pilot said. ‘I’ll have you there in two minutes.’ Langdon searched in vain for a seat belt. Why not make it three and get us there alive? (p. 33)

“Staring up at her from the floor, discarded like a piece of trash, was an eyeball. She would have recognized that shade of hazel anywhere.” (p. 110)

Teaser Tuesday (Oct 29)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @Should Be Reading. Every week we participate in this meme by sharing two sentences from your currently reading pile. For more information regarding the meme, head over to MizB's blog. 

My Teaser:

“Stand tall, smile bright, and let ’em wonder what secret’s making you laugh.”

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (p. 288)
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“That's the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.”

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (p. 63)
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“It had been ten years ago now, but he still remembered her as she was in the fading picture on the bedside table, and mourned her and her vanished smile.”

The Sword Of The Templars by Paul Christopher (p. 16)
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Stacking the Shelves (October 27)

Happy Sunday!
Hope all of you are having a great weekend. Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature by Tynga's Reviews where you get a chance to share the books you have bought or borrowed for reading.
Purchased:
The Sword Of The Templars by Paul Christopher (Templar #1) [historical fiction, mystery]

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After a lifetime on the front lines, Army Ranger John Holliday has resigned himself to ending his career teaching at West Point. But when his uncle passes away, Holliday discovers a mysterious medieval sword---wrapped in Adolf Hitler's personal battle standard. Then someone burns down his uncle's house in an attempt to retrieve the sword, and Holliday realizes that he's being drawn into a war that has been fought for centuries. 

Accompanied by his adventurous niece Peggy, Holliday must delve into the past and piece together the puzzle that was his uncle's life and his involvement with the enigmatic warriors known as the Knights Templar. But his search for answers soon becomes a race against ruthless, cunning opponents willing to die for their cause...and to kill Holliday for daring to uncover their past.

Quotes from "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

This is the first John Green book that I read, and I really loved it.

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“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” (p. 12)

‘I’d learned this from my aforementioned third best friend, Peter Van Houten, the reclusive author of An Imperial Affliction, the book that was as close a thing as I had to a Bible. Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's like to be dying, and (b) not have died.’ (p. 13)

Teaser Tuesday (Oct 22)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @Should Be Reading. Every week we participate in this meme by sharing two sentences from your currently reading pile. For more information regarding the meme, head over to MizB's blog. 

My Teaser:

“He could still hear his father speaking the old New England aphorism: If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong. Langdon hoped the saying was false.”

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (p. 251)
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“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (p. 12)
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Top Ten Tuesday - Character Names I Love/Unusual Character Names

Weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. It's about making bookish lists and sharing them.

Character Names I Love (in no particular order)
1. "Soda" from The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (Goodreads | Amazon | My Review)
As the name itself suggests, Soda is a handsome, funny and cheerful teenager. My favorite character from the book.

Stacking the Shelves (October 20)

Happy Sunday!
Hope all of you are having a great weekend. Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature by Tynga's Reviews where you get a chance to share the books you have bought or borrowed for reading.
Borrowed:
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green [young adult]

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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Teaser Tuesday (Oct 15)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @Should Be Reading. Every week we participate in this meme by sharing two sentences from your currently reading pile. For more information regarding the meme, head over to MizB's blog. 

My Teaser:

“His reflection in the glass seemed mocking, like the image staring back at him this morning from his bay window. An aging ghost.”

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (p. 242)
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Review:
The best thing about the book is that despite being a fairy tale there is no traditional "happily ever after" ending (something I've grown to hate). In fact, we learn that death is inevitable. There's also a tiny bit of sadness in the last few ending lines. I liked this book right from the beginning. Secondly, there is no love-at-first-sight between Tristran and Yvain which is how I prefer in books. In the end, I had wanted Tristran and Yvain to settle in the human world after the eventful and magical adventure but the ending suited me just fine.
My favorite secondary character was the "the little hairy man," a funny character full of humor. It was quite unexpected the way Giaman worked out the "Two Mondays coming together" (a sort of spell that would relieve Una from his servitude) and I had to laugh at the idea.

Quotes from "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

I procrastinated reading this book for a long time, but now that I have read it I'm compiling my favorite quotes from the books.

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“They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters; and on these walks, upon which they were invariably accompanied by Daisy’s mother and younger sister walking a healthy six paces behind, they would, from time to time, stare at each other lovingly.” (p. 6)

‘Because,’ announced Tristarn, ‘every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel.’ (p. 62)