The Golden Compass
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 ...
Waiting on Wednesday: High Voltage
Oh The Fever series, just when I thought you were dead and gone I find you in my life again. Title: High Voltage Series: The Fever Series Author: Karen Marie Monig Publisher: Delacorte Press Genre: Fa...
Waiting on Wednesday: Immortal Reign (Falling Kingdoms #6)
Here we go. Morgan Rhodes is wrapping up her Falling Kingdoms series. Basically it’s our favourite series about hot people, because everyone in this series is attractive. Seriously. You’re...
Waiting on Wednesday: Furyborn
This book doesn’t come out for a while, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Furyborn is the first book in Claire Legrand’s newest trilogy. Title: Furyborn Series: The Empirium Trilog...
Waiting on Wednesday: The Book of Dust
Philip Pullman has been talking about returning to Lyra’s world for a long time now. Instead of offering a sequel to his original His Dark Materials trilogy, Pullman is giving them The Book of D...
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
Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord...
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: 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: 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...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Broke Our Hearts
How many books have made you cry or at least hit you right in the chest? This week on Top Five Wednesday we talk about the top five books that broke our hearts. These are the books that caused us to s...
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...