Hermit Opportunist

Philip Pullman’s beloved His Dark Materials series will be turned into a BBC series, the media outlet announced today. The epic fantasy trilogy that begins with The Golden Compass centers on the young, curious Lyra, who sets out to explore a mysterious material called Dust. 

As Katie Presley wrote for Bitch: “The political, religious, class, and racial tensions in this story are accessible to readers of all ages, and ring scary-true today. Pullman expects a lot of his audience, which is the best formula for making confident, lifelong readers. Lyra, the main character in the trilogy, is clever, witty, rebellious, and she more than holds her own with much older, scarier characters. Not one page of His Dark Materials is flippant or derogatory; there’s far too much world-saving to be done for any of that nonsense!”