Your guide to the 'Net, gadgets, games and more. Cover to Cover Myra Miller was uncharacteristically quiet at this month's meeting. April's selection for the Cover to Cover book club was rather unusual, even by the club's eclectic standards. She lives in England and travels toward the North Pole, but along the way she befriends an armored bear and a sympathetic witch.
Characters travel by sledge, zeppelin, hot-air balloon and broomstick.
Ellie Woodruff, who was lukewarm about Harry Potter, nearly boiled over with enthusiasm for Pullman's book and its indomitable heroine. She had read the book several years before. And everyone just knew how she felt. Each person has a daemon, who talks only to its human, and they share a deep and loving bond. When the person dies, the daemon disappears, but they are believed to be together in death.