...weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship.

I just finished The Giver, again. A truly wonderful book. I nearly cried at some parts. Sometimes I feel like Jonas, except I don't have a companion like the Giver.

I also saw The Golden Compass yesterday. I want to reread the His Dark Materials series, it should only take a day or two. I don't think the movie did the book complete justice, as they never do, but it seemed like a close fit to my memory. I wish the series was more popular, that way they would continue to make the movies (the jury is still out, apparently). The second and third books in the trilogy are... amazing. Lyra eventually makes it into other worlds, including a world of the dead. I imagined it to be more like the Greek Underworld than the Christian Hell. Then, there's the battle against the Authority which, as I remember, riveting.

( 2008 survey I stole from Jess )