Day Five

4/5

The Book: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.

ISBN: 978-0-440-41832-0

Suggested By: Sissy Vaughn, Audrey Scott

Where: Home

When: 9:45-10:25P

Music: None

Company: The Family

Pages: 283-345 (62)

The Lead In: Had homework tonight so I was rushed to squeeze in 55 before bed. I’m tired, honestly, but this book is a fun read and easy to get into.

The 411 on the 55: Lyra escapes from the camp with some trickery and after a fight with the Tartars and a snow-mobile-riding Mrs. Coulter, is whisked away in the Scoresby’s balloon. They are making their way to the Bear kingdom when they suffer an accident and Lyra falls from the balloon.

She manages to survive the fall only to be captured by the bears. Lyra realizes that her only hope of survival, and the release of her father (being held by the bears), is to talk the king into fighting Iorek who is on his way. To do this, she pretends to be a daemon, which the king desperately wants, promising that if the king beats Iorek she will become his daemon.

Line of the Day: “We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are nor, or die of despair.” pg 310

The Fact on the Fiction: The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman will be a companion novel to the His Dark Materials trilogy. It will follow Lyra, returning to her story two years after Lyra's Oxford, and will tie into that previous book.Lyra will be "about 16". The book will also be "about Dust" and will address the questions about the lack of portrayals of positive effects of religion in His Dark Materials, although it "will not be a continuation of the trilogy, but other stories about the same world and the same characters. Wikipedia