His Dark Materials
The Book of Dust Spoilers
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the ...
The Book of Dust Review
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the ...
The Book of Dust
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the ...
The Golden Compass Spoilers
Chelsey and Alexandra talk about the Golden Compass, a book that meant a lot to them when they were growing up and how their views on it have changed with age.
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass was an instant classic that holds up today. It’s a masterpiece of writing, and deconstructing the way Pullman crafts his story just reveals how great a writer he is.
His Dark Materials
The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far North, where...
Top 5 Wednesday: Fictional Items We Want
Chelsey and I talk about the top five fictional items we want. How many times have you been reading a book and you’ve come across an object (magical or otherwise) and wished that it existed in the rea...
Freedom to Read Week 2016 | Book Tag
In honour of Freedom to Read Week Chelsey and Alexandra do the Freedom to Read Tag!
Top 5 Wednesday: Books to Read By the Fire
Winter is no longer coming, it’s finally here. There’s no better way to spend the cold dark days curled up inside under a few blankets with a crackling fire in your fireplace. This week on Top 5 Wedne...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Made Us Think
These are the books that stuck with us and made us question our beliefs, our faith or even just our day to day lives. Whether these books were written with this in mind or it was just a happy accident...
Top 5 Wednesday: Wintry Reads
Welcome back to Top Five Wednesday! We’re now smack in the heart of the winter months and to distract us from our ongoing battles with those pesky white walkers, Chelsey and Alexandra are here to talk...
Day 4: A Book That Makes You Cry
When I first tried to read His Dark Materials I could not get myself past the first few chapters. I was bored and confused, and put it down for a year or two. When I ran out of things to read I final...