I do not have a long and delicious post to make up for my long and unpardonable absence. =( Needless to say, my life has been pretty boring these past few weeks. I was totally entraped with exams and hospital visits and also a sinfully addictive new book series called Twilight (omg this is a must read!!! Final book coming out in August I can wait!!!!). Some of you might know it because I did send out copies to a few. =) Do read them and anyone who is interested can tell me. I’d happily oblige with a copy.

Diana Wynne Jones has come out with a new book =) The House of Many Ways which is connected in a way to her Howl’s Moving Castle characters. I can’t wait to get my hands on that as well.

Narnia was such an unexpectedly nice movie. It was EPIC in a totally different way compared to the first film a couple of years ago. The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe was more of a children’s film. Not surprising since Narnia is a childrens’ book but Prince Caspian was so much more grown - up and it was disconcerting to see a much older Lucy (Georgie Henly). AND the scriptwriters did an amazing job of creating such a smooth flow between events and making sense of everything because I have read the books and really they were sometimes quite confusing with bits and pieces that seemed chucked in for fun. It was turned into a much more cinematic material. Staying faithful to the book would just make the movie disappointing. Plus the song at the end of the movie was so touching. Must listen to that, The Call by Regina Spektor. I wonder how they would film Voyage of the Dawn Treader… Peter and Susan will no more be in it and a cousin of the Pevensie siblings will be in the adventure instead. In a way, that makes me sad because I would love to have all four siblings throughout the 7 books. Just when you start to feel a connection with the characters, they leave you to do other things such as Growing Up. That’s why I never really grew to love the Narnia series, I just cannot stand the fact of characters abandoning Narnia for their mundane lives although they had no choice in that matter so I guess any unkind feeling of mine should be directed at the author….. But there were quite a bit to learn from the books as well. I never really gave much thought about it when I was reading the books years ago but as I was watching the movie, something hovered just in the peripheries of my mind, how EVERY single experience teaches us a lesson. How there is always something to be gained if only we looked hard enough. Every sight, smell, sound, touch etc. The privilege of growing up is having an excuse to wonder, learn, ask questions and make mistakes. and that was what the Pevensie siblings did in their trips to Narnia. They had the additional excitement of doing it in a totally new world but I guess I just have to make do with the little world I am in right now….