Angels and Demons is a suspenseful page turner about science versus religion. Dan Brown's writing was stunning. He thoroughly knew what he was talking about, came up with some brilliant ideas of his own, and let me visualize everything.  Robert Langdon is a symbologist at Harvard University. He receives an early morning fax showing the corpse of a physicist who had been branded by someone in a brotherhood that was thought to be defunct for many, many years - the Illuminati.  The Illuminati has targeted Vatican City as their ultimate revenge.  Clear your schedule and follow Robert to Geneva and through Rome in less than 24 hours.

Travis, a bad boy (tough, fighter, tattooed) meets Abby, a good girl (no swearing, no drinking) Travis is a very hot, charming womanizer who instantly becomes captivated by Abby. Abby is also instantly captivated by Travis, no matter how hard she tries not to be. He makes a deal with her and if he wins she has to live with him for a month. Same story, only different. A definite page turner for me, but I got sick of Travis's childishness, his possessive and controlling behaviour, and I got sick of Abby's games, too.

This story, divided into five sections, blends fact with fiction. A woman and her daughter really did hide fifteen Jewish people, as well as a German soldier, in their small home in Poland during the Nazi invasion.  

A story of perseverance. After 84 days of being unlucky in all his attempts to catch a fish, an old fisherman is taken out to sea by a large marlin.

Mack, a man whose daughter had been kidnapped and murdered, receives a letter in his mailbox inviting him to spend a weekend at the very shack where his world fell apart four years earlier.  It is at that very shack where Mack comes face to face with God and learns to heal.

The book goes back and forth between two stories: one about Hana and her family before and during the Holocaust, and one about a Japanese woman who received a suitcase and searched for more information about Hana and her family. I like how the stories blend. One was equally as important as the other. I like the Japanese woman's persistence and the young groups interest in the suitcase, Hana, George and the holocaust in general and their eagerness to share what they learn with others in hopes that another holocaust will never happen again. I like Hana, her family and what they had up until everything fell apart.

Aomame is a fitness instructor who is recruited by a client to carry out special assignments. A taxi driver's strange proposal to her changes her world.  Tengo is a math teacher and aspiring novelist. Re-writing a manuscript for a dyslexic teenager changes his world. Linked by a powerful event that happened twenty years ago, these two seem doomed never to be together again no matter how much they want to be.