11/10: revisiting

This week I need to read The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman for one of my classes.  Some years ago I read the whole trilogy to which it belongs, and by the end I wasn't a fan.  But as I'm re-reading The Golden Compass I'm remembering that I really did (and do!) like this first book in the series, with its daemons, the alethiometer, the armored bear Iorek, and of course the Aurora.