movie and book

I had been wanting to see the Studio Ghibli adaptation of The Borrowers ever since I first heard about it in 2010. (I was surprised to find out that there are two English-language adaptations: England and America.) It finally came to the U.S. and I saw it during opening weekend last month! I was happy to see how full the theater was, since anime movies don't always do that great over here. Highlights:

--the animation of course, especially in the garden scenes
--Carol Kane as the batty housekeeper
--Spiller offering his cricket leg
--the music by Cecile Corbel; I was afraid it would be removed and replaced with American pop-type music that would completely ruin the atmosphere for this release

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I also got my hands on The Mark of the Golden Dragon, the most recent Bloody Jack book. I love this series so much. For this book in particular, I was greatly amused by the fan fic for "The Highwayman", the bit about Nelson's blood, and the scene where Jacky and Ravi are being chased by a tiger and she yells, "Bad kitty, bad kitty!" at it. Let's face it, I would probably do the same thing.

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Recently I was reading the foreward to an anthology of the Grimm fairy tales and realized that the brothers lived in the same time period as Jacky. And she's been to Germany once already. I now want either a canon scene/reference in the books or fan fiction where Jacky meets the Brothers Grimm.

The next Jacky faber book comes out in October!