147 – Nice Day To Start Agaaaain

Recently someone at work lent me the first novel in The Bartimaeus Trilogy and I enjoyed it so much that I had to get the other two as quickly as possible. It’s very cinematic – it’s the sort of thing that (along with Artemis Fowl) I would love to see movies for. But with The Chronicles of Narnia and His Dark Materials franchises both crashing and burning before they even had a chance to get to preachy parts, maybe Hollywood is done beating the young-adult-fantasy-novel thestral that Harry Potter kicked off?