Quotable Quotes

Good evening bookworms! Just logging in to share with you four quotes from different characters of The Lost Symbol. Ponder on these will you.

1. "Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user."
-Trish Dunne

2. "There is a fine line between insanity and genius"
-Inoue Sato

3. "Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of validity."
-Robert Langdon

4. "In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination...but in the wrong hands, fire can be
highly destructive."
-Robert Langdon

Bleak!

Hello bookworms! I feel that I might let you and myself down this holiday season. Judging from the number of days left 'till the year ends, my hopes of finishing this book in time is bleak. I have been away for two days without the book in hand, and now that I'm home I haven't been able to pick it up and read because of all the necessary holiday preparations. I just hope that even if I won't make it to my own deadline, I'll be able to finish this book. Just finish it...we'll see.

Slacking!

Good morning bookworms! It is the 7th day of December and I can already feel the cold breeze of the Christmas air. I'm sipping a cup of coffee feeling the cool kiss of the breeze kiss my cheeks, i'm loving it! I, however, am not loving the fact that I haven't touched a page of my book. I'm now starting to wonder if I ever will finish this book in time. I am slacking! I guess the cool wind is getting to me. It's making me just wanna lie in bed all day and dream! But you are right, if I have any respect left for myself and for my husband, I have to motivate myself and do this. The change must first start with me. So now I am going to take my cup of coffee and finish this with my book. Happy reading bookworms!

Religious Diversity

Hey guys! It is the second day of my reading marathon. I'm happy to report to you guys that I was able to finish thirteen chapters yesterday. The book got me hooked. Chapter six got my attention, particularly the part where Langdon was discussing to his students the religious beliefs of the masons. In a world where most people fight over which religion is the best, the open-minded rationale of the masons about religion is very commendable. If only all of us were like the masons who didn't impose a specific definition or name on a higher power and just respect each others beliefs, then this might enable us to gather together and alter paradigms of thinking. Just think a world where no man is butchered because he insists that his religious belief is better than the other, the world would be less chaotic...what do you think?

Brief Description of The Lost Symbol

If like me, you haven't read through the pages of the book The Lost Symbol, then you might want to have a brief idea what this book is all about.

Apparently this book is a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets and unseen truths which is set within the hidden chambers, tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C. According to the book's synopsis, Robert Langdon, Dan Brown's hero in this book, receives a mysterious invitation and realizes that this invitation is the only clue and hope he has of rescuing his beloved mentor, Peter Solomon. This invitation apparently plunges
Langdon into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations, all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. (Source of synopsis: thelostsymbol.com)

Now I don't know about you, but the book got to me at 'secrets.' So I am now going to begin with the Prologue then on to Chapter 1. c",)

Fresh Start

December is the last month of the year. It is usually the time when most people wind their affairs for the year to make room for a clean slate to begin the coming year. I ,however, am going to deviate from this practice and begin my fresh start today. Today I am going to revive my habit of reading. You see ever since Friendster, Myspace and Facebook erupted into fame, I became one of the many "zombies" who logged into these sites day in and day out. I guess you could say I was a little addicted to it...okay, maybe a lot, but I want to change that now. If I am going to be a couch potato, I might as well be a well-read couch potato, right? Right.

On my birthday, my husband gave me a book for my birthday present. It wasn't just any book, it was a book written by Dan Brown, my favorite author at present. It was his latest masterpiece-The Lost Symbol. My husband figured that if he gave this to me I'd stop pressing my face in front of his computer, to his dismay. He ended up reading the book first. So as my early Christmas present, I am going to get the book now and I am going to make sure that before 2009 ends, I am going to finish reading The Lost Symbol.

Today is the 3rd day of December 2009, I only have twenty-eight days left before fireworks and firecrackers and the song Auld Lang Syne paint the New Year.
Wish me luck! c",)