Just as Donald Trump’s doubters across the pond are branded “unpatriotic” for daring to question their new president, so too critics of the Magisterium are quickly shut down. The Magisterium, as Pullman renames it, is an organisation in the ultimate position of power to criticise it is to blaspheme. Yes, the Potter books give us a dangerous fascist on the rise, but His Dark Materials gives us an enemy that is not only already the accepted authority, but happens to be the bloomin’ Catholic church. If you think Harry Potter is a great political allegory for today’s world, then you’ve obviously not read His Dark Materials. Pullman has ridden back on his agnostic/atheist steed to teach us lessons about rejecting corrupt authority, favouring facts over unfounded beliefs and being true and tolerant to yourself and others. Despite the first book having been published 22 years ago, the trilogy is a glowing antidote to the murky and unpleasant reality we’re currently living in. If we needed a reason to reread His Dark Materials, there are now two. So not only might we finally get the screen adaptation that the books deserve (let’s continue pretending that the sanitised monstrosity that was The Golden Compass never actually happened, agreed?), we also get to dive in to the world anew, meeting new characters and – more importantly – getting reacquainted with Lyra Silvertongue.
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Experience the world of the Witcher like never before with this stunning hardcover edition of Sword of Destiny, featuring a gorgeous new cover and six full-page interior illustrations from a range of award-winning artists!Īndrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series introduced the world to iconic monster hunter Geralt of Rivia his beloved ward and the prophesied savior of the world, Ciri and his ally and true love, the powerful sorceress Yennefer-and they took the world by storm. There were a few mysteries in the book that I felt were a little too solvable as an adult, but rather than being disappointed, my daughter was thrilled and proud to figure them out before the book disclosed them. When a villain tells Peter Nimble that he’s “just a child,” this young girl proclaims, “There’s no such thing as just a child.” This belief in the intelligence and capability of children propels the book forward and endears the narrator and the story itself to the reader. Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes is so much fun to read aloud that, for the first time in ten years of reading to her, my daughter jumped in to take over the reading – specifically to give voice to a ten-year-old heroine. She is not the biggest among them, or the boldest, but for some reason the others trust her. Savage, which was engraved on the foot of her coffin-yet she finds herself in charge. She knows only one thing about herself-her name, M. Beyond their room lies a corridor filled with bones and dust, but no people. Fighting her way free brings little relief-she discovers only a room lined with caskets and a handful of equally mystified survivors. She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. a lid.”Ī teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. There is a board right in front of my face. it thumps against something solid and unmoving. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. Their only hope lies with an indomitable young woman who must lead them not only to answers but to survival. For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising comes a gripping sci-fi adventure in which a group of teenagers wake up in a mysterious corridor with no knowledge of who they are or how they got trapped. After his most recent break-up with on-again/off-again girlfriend Naomi, he was convinced he’d be sleeping on friends’ couches all summer. Josh Darling couldn’t believe his luck when he found this cheap summer sublet. She’s just managed to quell her panic and is exploring her new home, when a deep male voice responds to her utterance: “So this is how it feels to be well and truly fucked,” with “I get that a lot.” Clara tries not to freak out and we all mentally agree Everett is a jerk. He picks Clara up at the airport, explains why he won’t be sticking around, tells her he’s found someone to sublet his room for the summer, and drops her curbside at his LA house. Except Everett, a musician in a not very successful rock band, is following his own bliss (not Clara) – and going on a summer tour. Her bliss, if you haven’t guessed, is Everett. But when Everett encourages Clara to “ follow her bliss,” after completing her doctorate, and move in with him, Clara impulsively (uh oh) does. Unfortunately, Everett has so far seemed immune to any pressure from his family – or Clara – to take the friendship to the next level. Their families, part of the Connecticut east coast elite, are close friends, and their parents always hoped Clara and Everett would one day wind up married. It’s excellent.Ĭlara Wheaton has loved Everett Bloom since they were small children. Surprising, funny, sexy and original, The Roommate is on my shortlist of favorite books of 2020. Friends, there is nothing like reading a debut romance and loving it. It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name. "This fully animated portrait of Nancy Wake.will fascinate readers of World War II history and thrill fans of fierce, brash, independent women, alike." -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Based on the thrilling real-life story of a socialite spy and astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII -from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia The immediate effect is massive tsunamis that wipe out coastal cities around the world, followed by severe earthquakes, followed by volcanism as a large number of dormant volcanoes erupt, with the Moon's increased gravity pulling more magma towards the surface. The impact is great enough to shift the moon's orbit closer to Earth. The plot, basically, is this: an asteroid hits the moon. But I have a particular fondness for end-of-the-world stories, and Life As We Knew It (and its sequels) have gotten a fair amount of buzz, so I went ahead and plowed through it in short order, as it's a pretty light read. There aren't many things that will induce me to read a YA novel nowadays. In her journal, Miranda records the events of each desperate day, while she and her family struggle to hold on to their most priceless resource-hope. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to the earth. Inverarity One-line summary: OMG! Like, the world is totally ending and it like, totally sucks! Caesar skillfully explores the political, intellectual, and spiritual movements of the era, as well as Wilson’s psychic scars from the war. Back in England, he turned to fasting, Indian mysticism, and the power of positive thinking to recover from depression and prepare for his Everest expedition. After the war, Wilson burned through relationships, suffered a nervous breakdown, and traveled the world. Drawing on archival records and love letters Wilson wrote to a friend’s wife, Caesar highlights Wilson’s middle-class upbringing and military service in WWI, where his battalion was nearly wiped out in Germany’s spring offensive of 1918. Despite the best efforts of the British government to stop him, Wilson flew his Gipsy Moth biplane (which he had only recently learned to pilot) from England to India, hired three sherpas, and walked more than 300 miles to the base of the world’s tallest mountain disguised as a Tibetan priest. Journalist Caesar ( Two Hours) delivers an evocative portrait of the life and times of British adventurer Maurice Wilson (1898–1934), who captivated the public’s attention with his doomed attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934. At all times she is a witty, always-enchanted guide-except when it comes to bureaucrats. It's a hard road, not that Maillart cares. Maillart describes it all with the sharp eye and unvarnished prose of a veteran reporter-the missionaries and rogues, parents binding daughters' feet with rags, the impatient Fleming lighting fires under stubborn camels. Setting out with pockets full of Mexican money (the currency used in China at the time), Maillart encountered a way of life now lost, but one that then had gone unchanged for centuries. The trip promised hardships such as typhus and bandits, as well as the countless hazards surrounding the civil war between Chinese communists and Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists. Enlisting with newswriter Peter Fleming (with the caveat that his company remain tolerable), Maillart undertook a journey considered almost beyond imagination for any European and doubly so for a woman. A classic account of a trip through China during the golden age of travel In 1935 Ella Maillart contemplated one of the most arduous journeys in the world: the "impossible journey" from Peking, then a part of Japanese-occupied China, through the distant province of Sinkiang (present day Tukestan), to Kashmir. |