A while back, I started participating in this feature/club thing, as I’m going to continue calling it, that was created by Books of Amber and Paper Riot. Each month they force each other to read a certain book. The particular book is often something that the partner has recently liked, or something that they know has been on the TBR pile for a while. Sadly, my former partner Nikki decided to take a break from blogging. Now I’m partnering with Lara from The Paperback Palace!
Lara Rec’d The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford’s Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called “Gobblers”—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person’s inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
I Rec’d The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jacyln Moriarty 
Bindy Mackenzie believes herself to be the smartest, kindest girl at Ashbury High. Unfortunately, she is alone in that belief.
To prove her likeability, Bindy decides to document her life in transcripts, essays, and e-mails. What this reveals is a girl who’s funny, passionate, hilariously self-righteous…and in danger.
Someone wants to kill Bindy Mackenzie. The clues are in the documents. The detectives are the very students who hate her most. And time is running out.
I was so glad that Lara rec’d The Golden Compass because its a backlist title that I probably never would have gotten to otherwise!
Lara ended up really liking The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie! Read her review here.
I loooved The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie, and I hope you’re enjoying The Golden Compass 🙂 Can’t wait to read this months rec!
I know I’m so excited too!