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• 27/08/2008 @ 12:01 UMxx said

  

  My Dear Overseas, How sweet of you - and yes I can see it as a door - ooh but it is very dark and I might need to be very brave to venture through that door - but I think I might like to be with what is on the other side. I wonder if it would be possible to take along a few friends for company through the dark bit? UM xx

• 27/08/2008 @ 21:48 Overseas said

  

  Yes it's dark, but it's probably so to better see what's on the other side - like contrast - somewhat like for Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle. And for your friends, I guess some of them have already made the journey with you in the past, for the exact reason you're asking, though you might not remember it... ;o) os ~

• 28/08/2008 @ 13:26 UMxx said

  

  Aha - do you like the Diana Wyld Jones books or is it the Studio Ghibli that you enjoy? Well for me it is both although I enjoyed the book tremendously - I bought it for my children and we read it together nightly. As for the Japanese anime - we have quite a collection.

  And today I really did venture into the dark - the darkest and I am still coming to terms about what is on this other side - your brick was prophetic. If only I had known UM xxx

• 28/08/2008 @ 20:18 Overseas said

  

  I only discovered a view days ago that it is a book. But I really enjoyed the Studio Ghibli work. I saw it twice at the cinema, including once in Japanese with subtitles. These stories are great for the romantic dreamer that I'm. Since a view days I'm reading Les Royaumes du Nord (Nothern Lights).
  How was my brick prophetic ? oS ~

• 29/08/2008 @ 10:40 UMxx said

  

  I highly recommend "Graveyard of the Fireflies" as well as "Spirited Away"

  both are wonderful works. And although Howl's Moving Castle is written for a young audience - a romantic dreamer will find it quite enthralling.

  Now then has someone recommended InkHeart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke - I have read the english translations to the kids and again have enjoyed it thoroughly. It was written originally in German.

  As for the prophetic nature of the brick well then I think that is a message rather than a comment here xx UM

• 29/08/2008 @ 17:55 Overseas said

  

  I've watched Spirited Away as well as the Castle in the Sky and Kiki's delivery service. I was told by someone that Graveyard of the Fireflies is great too.

• 30/08/2008 @ 00:09 UMxx said

  

  Yes Graveyard is very powerful - deeply political and confronting about human behaviour. Get the box of tissues ready - it is a sad experience UM xx