The Golden Compass, Chapters 13-18 (Patreon)

Hey guys! Good morning to you and I hope that you're having a good week...but if not, it's nearly over!

Today we're doing The Golden Compass, and it's really astonishing how quickly we move through the book when we do several chapters at a time. In this episode we get to Bolvangar, meet the children and the doctors, find out about the imprisoned daemons, run into Mrs. Coulter, escape, get to ride in a balloon pulled by witches, and then get wrecked by cliff-ghasts! Whew. That's a lot. 

While I personally enjoy the fact that Serafina and Lee don't see eye to eye at all because she lives so much longer than he does (plus, you know, witch) but Owen found her to be totally self-absorbed and irritating. He compared her to the Dwarf in Volume 6 of Sandman that doesn't seem to be listening and brings every conversation back to himself. I guess he's right, but because she's so otherworldly it doesn't bother me nearly as much as it does him, apparently. 

Anyway, I hope that you've been enjoying the book club, and I want to ask you all if there's something you would like for us to do differently in the way we've been doing coverage. I always like feedback from my audience! 

Thanks so much for pledging, everyone! I will see you tomorrow with Hannibal!