poppy

Took my daughter to see How To Train Your Dragon today. It was great, fantastic animation and lovely story. The joys of being a parent .... we have an excuse to go and watch these things

a welcome amnesia, unfortunately the consequences of which are....

The reason I thought Hanna left

we understand. Time stretches like elastic ....

I found this a very memorable book, one that will stay with me forever and the movie is now one of my all time favourites. One thing I didn't pick up in either the film or book was....

Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison

Granted but you'll be so muscle bound, you won't be able to bend over to tie your shoe-laces and will be for ever destined to wear slippers. I wish I had my own personal masseuse

Granted, but you will look like Boy George with the voice of Tiny Tim. I wish I could do a tandem parachute jump (please don't kill me )

Mick Jagger Even now. There's something about tall, skinny, gangly guys ......or maybe it's his mouth

Yes, it does make sense, it's not how I feel, but I can still understand what you mean. I don't need lyrics to understand music, particularly music in a minor key can be incredibly moving. But it is very interesting that people view things in a different way, there's no right or wrong about it, just a different perspective. If we all looked at things the same way, we wouldn't have the wonderful variation in music, art and literature.

I had to laugh when I read this BookJumper. The fact that you wrote ee cummings using capitals I've always preferred free verse poetry to the more formal kind.

Dimitra, I don't think I've ever seen anyone else mention The Piano. It's one of my favourite films ever. Rather uneasy and brooding but exquisitely beautiful I thought. Anna Paquin as the little girl was delightful, as was Holly Hunter. Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill also excellent. Loved this music which Ada played on her piano

CaliLily Loved those.

I don't remember a huge lot about the poetry I learnt at school now but I'm forever grateful to one very good English teacher who introduced us to ee cummings and Gerard Manley Hopkins (thanks Franklin where ever you are)

I can't imagine anyone playing the parts of Jeeves and Bertie better than those two. In fact the whole cast was brilliant, even the dogs! My daughter has fallen in love with Stephen Fry and keeps saying there's Jeeves when she sees him on other programmes There are so many funny Wodehouse quotes. I love ..... 'I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. ' and .... 'A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of someone who had searched for the leak in life's gas pipe with a lighted candle' and .... 'It was the look which caused her to be known in native bearer circles as 'Mgobi-'Mgumbi, which may be loosely translated as She On Whom It Is Unsafe To Try Any Oompus-Boompus.'

Of course not BookJumper It was a purely personal opinion, I've never been any good at looking at things objectively. Someone's got to know what they're talking about

I agree Cookie. It's particularly true when you have to dissect a poem, it spoils your enjoyment, it somehow makes it a clinical reaction rather than an emotional one. I love reading people's poetry and commenting but only about how the words make me feel, not about it's structural makeup.

Remember the Name - Fort Minor

I totally agree Hercule. I enjoy reading poetry but some of it is incomprehensible. If you look hard enough at anything written you can put all sorts of meanings into it, unless the author actually says that's what he/she meant, how would you know? It's a bit like art, there is a lot of pretentious nonsense attached to it. You get people waffling on about the deep intrinsic meaning of the juxtapositioning of the purple and yellow or some such other rubbish and all it probably means is that the painter was out on the turps the night before and suffering a bad hangover.

Horror is not a genre I usually read but I've always enjoyed vampire movies and recently read Bram Stoker's Dracula, so thought I'd follow it up with Interview With the Vampire. Somehow vampire type stories always seem to be removed enough from reality not to be scary. I've only just started IWtV but the passage where Lestat drains Louis's blood and he slowly dies and sees the world through the eyes of a vampire for the first time would be one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read. It's really beautifully written. Anne Rice is amazingly descriptive and you can picture the scene crystally clear. I'm finding her a very powerful and disturbing writer.

A much younger version of me could have been Helena Bonham Carter. We both had the same crazy hair and rather bohemian dress sense.

Chrissy, yours sounds great but I would add to your map.... 4. Awesome surround sound system with any music you want at the touch of a button 5. Visitors by invitation 6. Computer so you can still keep in touch with your 'earth' friends

I watched 'The Reader' I cried and cried Loved the book and movie.

I was nearly having hysterics by the time I got to the small moan bit

Oh how the times have changed