It has taken me years to get to the end of this book. Literally. And I mean literally literally.I first started listening to it on a long drive back in the winter of 2015. I added a bookmark at the end of chapter 7 and then it wasn't until over a year later that I picked it up again. That time I onl...
I listened to this book as an audiobook. I actually enjoyed it in this format very much. It was mainly read by the author, but it also had a full cast for the characters. Much better than when a male reader tries to imitate female voices. Though sometimes that can be very funny. It reminded me of th...
This was a fun YA read, and I probably liked it so much because it was the first fiction book I’ve read in a *long* time. It was also reminiscent of a lot of the fantasy novels I read as a kid. I had a pretty long stint of reading non-fiction, DIY, and self-help books. Happy that my Secret Santa fro...
His Dark Materials is the most recent, and highly successful, OB/MR buddy read. We've now finished the trilogy. I had delayed writing reviews of the books, but after finishing The Amber Spyglass last night, I shall delay no more. The titular Golden Compass - or alethiometer - is a device which Lyr...
So I have to say that I found this book to be from top to bottom absolutely wonderful. Potential readers should realize going in that this is a steampunk science fiction book taking a look at John Milton's Paradise Lost, Inferno, and also C.S. Lewis's The Chronicle of Narnia series. I read both Para...
Not ready to write my review yet, but wow, there is so much to think about with this book. I'm very excited for the next two. I feel like the story is really incomplete without reading on. Lord Asriel was certainly not the hero I had hoped for with his single-minded, ends justifies the means approac...
I was going to write how Pullman doesn’t fall to the bad tropes of Epic Fantasy. There are no pages dedicated solely to what food is being served. There are no hundred details that can only be useful in a crossword puzzle. Not everything is being described, only what is needed to set the mood. Sayin...
3.5 stars Even though I really enjoyed this one, I'm not going to give it 4 stars, because it was also slightly dissapointing. I can't really put my finger on it, but I guess my expectations were too high and/or I read too much (is there really such a thing?) brilliant fantasy in the past 10 years a...
Honestly, I can only come up with two words for this book: absolutely fan-fucking-tastic. Synopsis: Lyra is an 11 year old girl who lives at Jordan college in Oxford where she is more or less allowed to run wild. When her friend Roger and her uncle Asriel both disappear she is drawn into an advent...
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