Post #1648340
2026-02-13 20:00 UTC
Instead I plucked Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass" ("The Northern Lights" is the original UK title) out of my bookshelf. I had to peel off some Post-It notes left by, I think, Z, when she did a book report on it, something like twenty years ago. I clearly hadn't read it since before then. The pages have darkened with age.
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@plragde@mstdn.social 2026-02-13 20:04
The book more than holds up. It is stunning, maybe more so because I have the whole of the six-book trajectory with me (having just finished The Rose Field), but I have forgotten most of the specifics of the plot of the first trilogy. Now I have the next two to look forward to. And maybe then I can tolerate the Iliad again.