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Howl’s Moving Castle (2005)

Posted in Animation, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Howl’s Moving Castle
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Written by: Hayao Miyazaki, Diana Wynne Jones
US Release: June 2005

Finally it’s released in US theaters. I love the book by Diana Wynne Jones, though it was a long time ago since I read it and my memory is failing me on the details. But my impression was still strong, [...]

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Troll ~A Love Story~

Posted in Novel, tagged , , on January 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Troll ~A Love Story~ (2000)
Johanna Sinisalo
Originally titled ‘Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi‘ (translated as ‘Not Before Sundown’) in Finnish, it finally got translated and released here four years later. It won the highest Finnish literature award Finlandia. The story set place in contemporary world with a slight alternate history twist: mythical creature troll’s existence has been [...]

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Posted in Novel, tagged , on December 12, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Susanna Clarke
Finally finish this 800 pages book after spending the past month reading it, absorbing the richly detail world setting, investing in the colorful cast of characters and stories-within-stories that’s full of mysteries and twist and turns. Now I feel a sense of lost and wish there’s a sequel!! [...]

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Winter Rose

Posted in Novel, tagged , on November 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Winter Rose
by Patricia McKillip
After finishing Johnathan Strange I wanted to read more about faeries. I picked up this book based on the reviews saying that: 1) it is a retelling of the Scottish Tam Lin legend, and 2) the author is acclaimed to be a modern day Hans Christian Andersen. However it didn’t live [...]

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Two George MacDonald Fantasy

Posted in Novel, tagged , , on November 10, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

The Princess and the Goblin (1871)
by George MacDonald
I found these expensive luxury UK import Children books on bargain at a bookstore for only $5 each. They’re all richly cloth bound with very nice paper and printing. Inside are classic illustrations from the 19th century edition. So I picked up two that I’ve always wanted to [...]

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