Congratulations to Philip Pullman. If you look on other parts of my site you'll see that i actually picked out this book as a major influence. It isn't even the best one of the trilogy, i think that accolade goes to the subtle knife. But it's a brilliant book, and totally wasted by simply defining it as a book for children. The eight year olds who read Harry Potter would not like this book. I have often wondered why there is the furore over Harry Potter and witchcraft, but none about Pullman and his "anti-narnia". I would have thought that a work which very clearly questions organised religion, and concept of God and heaven, and the fall, would be more openly disliked by fundamentalists.

I was told about a game on the PSX2 called Ico. It has made me want one even more,.

Leona Naess has had her homepage updated. It doesn't exactly work...But never mind. I listened to her debut cd in the car again. Hardly a duff track on it. Pity her new album isn't released in the UK.