Archive for January, 2009

The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, and The Tiger in the Well

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I see Philip Pullman as an important voice in what I fondly refer to as middle-school fiction- though really his voice reaches much farther than juvenile fiction.  Because I’m trying to figure him out I keep reading his books.  Earlier this year I read The Scarecrow and His Servant, which did little to interest me. [...]