Pennyworth Books

Dan Brown’s latest historical mystery novel, The Lost Symbol, follows up on the success of The Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons.

Following the life of protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbolist, Brown’s latest adventure/mystery spans a twelve hour time period covering 2000 years of world history.  The plot, following the same construction fans have come to expect, knits together a historical account and a tense thriller.  This type of storyline construction is a feat that Brown does better than any other writer. 

Well-researched and tightly crafted, Dan Brown’s books are phenomenons with his raving fans, on book best-seller lists and at the box-office.  The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, raked in an astounding $748 million.  His latest installment, scheduled for publication on September 15, 2009, should be no exception.  Following the typical tense "real-time" style his fans have come to expect, Brown weaves mystery,…

The Lost Symbol is the third book written by an American novelist, Dan Brown that presents Robert Langdon as the main character. This character has been very popular through the previous two books, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. This time, he is exploring the architecture of Washington D.C to find the conspiracy of the famous Freemasonry group in US government.

The Lost Symbol is quite controversial as well as The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. This book tells about the Freemasonry group in the US government. The conflict starts when Langdon receives an invitation to deliver his speech in Capitol Building. However, it is just a fake invitation. Instead, he finds his friend Peter Solomon died in this building. Peter died with a tattoo of Freemasonry group in his hand and it is pointing at the portrait of George Washington.

Langdon begins his adventure from this point.…

Neil Gaiman is something of a Fantastic visionary, one of the few vocal voices of the new generation of fantastic literature that is reinventing how we read. His work began in early 90s as the writer of Sandman, in which he reinvented the comic book as we know it, saving DC from it’s own salty predisposition to tradition. His novels have crossed genre, medium, and audiences seamlessly and even now inhabit more than a couple sectors of the book store, from children’s to science fiction to literary fiction. One of my favorite books by Gaiman is a piece he wrote a little while back and won a slew of awards with, Stardust. A slim volume, and Gaiman’s answer to the call for fairy tale is soon to be released as a film starring Robert Deniro, Ian McKellen, and Claire Danes.

The story is of Tristan Thorne a youth left in a…

In a recent review in the BOOKREPORTER.com NEWSLETTER, Robert Goolrick writes that “Life is ambiguous, and goodness is often elusive. It usually takes unexpected and more muddled forms than we had hoped for.” These words reverberated with me as I finished Goolrick’s A RELIABLE WIFE. Throughout, this gripping and intense novel, molded around three amazingly well-developed character studies, the reader finds the “unexpected” and more “than we had hoped for” or can even imagine. This is a book that captures your attention from page one and doesn’t let go even after you complete it. A RELIABLE WIFE will haunt you, make you think, wish for people who have read it to be near by so you can discuss it, and never, never disappoint.

A RELIABLE WIFE starts out innocuously as what one might think is a common theme written about before; the early 1900s mail-order bride story. We have seen this in…

Among good reads, the classic detective fiction novel should come in somewhere near the top, mixed with various other genres. Such collections as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is still a good seller and can be found at nearly any bookstore due to the still common popularity. Such readers may occasionally have to special order some items though; due to the length of time those novels have been in existence. If there were more good fictional detective novels gracing the shelves of the bookstores today, there would not still be the demand for those fantastic pieces that were created so many years ago.

The reader requires constant entertainment and most of these classic detective fiction novels can provide that to them easily. Although some of the terms and phrases are now somewhat outdated, it is still a most interesting read for the well versed reader to pick up and follow. The…

Surrendering Your Isaac on the Altar

A midnight phone call alerted Carol and Gene Kent that their only son, Jason Paul, had been arrested for first degree murder. 揥hen I Lay My Isaac Down?is the story of their desperate response to this shocking news. Carol is clearly and openly communicates the pain they suffered through this tragedy. Feelings of hurt, shame, guilt, and unspeakable horror left them devastated.

A support group of 搒tretcher bearers?surrounded them with prayer, offered words of encouragement words of comfort, and in very real practical way helped, Carol, Gene, Jason Paul, and his wife April work through their sorrow and the sense of bereavement.

Carol抯 writing resonates with hope. She shares her story and the stories of others who have also been faced with loss and trauma. These stories vividly portray the message of God抯 love, redemption, and the way to reconciliation in times of calamity.

The chapters close with…

What are good friends? When someone says to you “Let’s be friends forever” do you take it seriously?

Firefly Lane is about two friends, Kate and Tully. Kate Mularkey would do just about anything to have a friend. Then something great happened. When some new people moved in across the street Kate noticed a cool girl about her age. Tully was beautiful and very popular. When something terrible happened to Tully, she told Kate about it and this is how they became “friends forever”.

Kate and Tully were really opposites. Tully helps Kate with a makeover. Kate comes from a loving family but Tully has a mother who is a pothead and comes to see her once in a while.

This novel covers three decades of friendship between Tully and Kate. Sometimes they were separated due to Tully’s career. Kate became a wife and mother. Kate and Tully think they have been through…