Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Labyrinth |
| author | Kate Mosse |
| ISBN-10 | 0-75286-554-4 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-752-86554-6 |
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| date | 2008-Apr-27 |
During summer break 2005 Alice is visiting her friend Shelagh in France who is the deputy at an excarvation site. As Alice does not have any other plans, she helps for a couple of days and makes a discovery at her last day...
In July 1209 Alaïs finds a dead body in the river when she goes to find fresh herbs for her medicines. When she describes what she found to her father, he is rather distressed, just as if the dead might be somebody dear to him. It turns out to be somebody else, but still, something seems to be bothering her father and he passes her an ancient book of great value for safekeeping. One book of a set of three he once was asked to bring from Egypt because it supposedly was safer in France...
Is Alice the same person as Alaïs? Is she a decendant? Gradually the two stories, at first seemingly unrelated, become one. A story of religion, faith, love, all centered around the Holy Grail.
A longish book but told well enough so I kept reading even though I'm usually not too much interested in historical or religious stories.
