‘She put down her spoon. The crème caramel suddenly seemed inedible. “What… I’m sorry, but this is a shock,” she said.
“Of course. I understand.”
Pan had come up onto her lap. She moved her fingers through his fur. “So this means… I have to leave?” she said.’
-chapter 6 con’t #TheSecretCommonwealth #thebookofdust
“Over the meal, which was served by one of the Master’s private staff whom Lyra hadn’t seen before , she tried to ask the Master about his previous career, his background, and so on. She was really only making conversation for the sake of politeness; she’d already decided that the man was clever and courteous, but dull.”
-chapter 6 con’t #TheSecretCommonwealth #thebookofdust
“The new Master was Dr. Werner Hammond: not a Jordan man, or even an Oxford man, but a businessman from the world of pharmaceuticals who had had a distinguished career as a scholar of chemistry before becoming chairman of one of the great medical corporations and enlarging its powers and revenues considerably.”
-chapter 6 #TheSecretCommonwealth #thebookofdust
‘Dick came back with a half pint of Badger ale. The other girl had gone.
“Oh, a half. Thank you for my half pint, Dick,” said Lyra. “If I’d known you were short of money, I’d have asked for a glass of water.”’
-chapter 4 #TheSecretCommonwealth #thebookofdust
Writer #PhilipPullman is best known for the #HisDarkMaterials trilogy – #TheGoldenCompass, #TheSubtleKnife, and #TheAmberSpyglass.
He followed it with #TheBookOfDust, of which only the first two volumes have been published.
Readers will be thrilled to know that #TheRoseField – the final volume – will be published on October 23.
I have nearly finished my re-read of #LaBelleSauvage and #TheSecretCommonwealth … and I had forgotten so much!
It’s a courageous and astonishing work – check it out.
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