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Northern Lights
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Start date
October 9, 2019
Finish date
November 6, 2019
Discussion
Wednesday Book Group
Why we're reading this
We thought this would be something quite different from our usual, and there is a television adaptation d…more

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Bo'ness Library Bookgroup
Nov 09, 2019 rated it it was amazing
'Northern Lights' is now considered (rightly in our opinion) a classic of its genre, a book which can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike, and which, together with the Harry Potter series, has changed the face of children's book publishing. This is a really well-written adventure story with some brilliant ideas: the existence of parallel universes, the idea that people's souls exist outside their body in animal form, the concept of Dust, the all-powerful Magisterium, and the armoured be ...more
Nicola Nicholson
Nov 18, 2019 rated it it was amazing
I have read this so many times since it first came out. Just gets better and better.
Claire
Apr 15, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition