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White Cat is written by Holly Black. This is originally written in Engilsh and it was published in 2010 in Great Britain. Holly Black has also wrote The Spiderwick Chronicles and I have read them all, they are maybe the best books I have ever read.  Black’s newest and upcoming book is The Darkest Part of the Forest. This White Cat– novel is a fantasy book as like the other books of Holly Black. This book fits pretty good into it’s genre. On the book’s cover it says: ”You’re only a fingertip away from another world.” I think that it may tell something about why it is a fantasy book. Similiar books as this White Cat is for example The Spiderwick Chronicles because they are also fantasy books.

I didn’t really catch the main character of this book, I didn’t find out that much about the characters. And relationships between each other is a little unclear. One of the characters is Cassel, a killer who is also cursed. And how the white cat associates with this book is that it haves a mission: white cat haunts Cassel and his magic- working family. This is all what I catched about the plot. It was told very unclearly and I didn’t like it at all. This story’s narrator is one of the characters. It’s telling the story of it’s own perspective and I think that the narrator is the main character. Somehow that makes this book a little bit scrappy and it just confused me while I was reading it.

Language in this book is sometimes difficult. Some words are weird and hard to understand. And there are some new words like crutch,  which means same as assistance. I have never heard word crutch so it was new for me. And what did I like the book… Well, it wasn’t that good as I expected. I thought it would be very good fantasy book because Holly Black has written it, but it wasn’t good. I am a little bit disappointed. The plot was very uncleaer as I have said before and I didn’t catch the plot. Also the characters was weird which makes the plot more unclear. After all I liked to read an English novel but still I like English manga more. I think I will try to read other English book on summer vacation.

Sources: Book’s cover
www.blackholly.com

I choose the movie ”Tales from Earthsea”, because it’s one of my favourite movies. I have seen it a couple of times before and i love animation movies, which has been done in Japan like this movie is. Tales from Earthsea is an original Japanese animation movie and it has been released first time in Japan in 2006. Tales from Earthsea bases on Ursula K. Le Guinins same named fantasybook. I have not readed that book, but I think that it could be good book to read, especially when you have watched this movie. This is a fantasy movie: there is dragons and magicians. All those little and very precise things, like well- drawn dragons, just makes a wonderful movie. Also all those soundtracks are so touching and sometimes they are sad. This movie has been directed by Goro Miyazaki, who is a son of one worlds famous animator, Hayao Miyazaki.

Characters are so distinict but still they look like they belong together. The main character, prince Arren, had killed his own father and then he left on his own journey. There are also more characters but they are morre like supporting characters. I think that all characters are equally good and they cannot be compared to each other. Because this movie is an original Japanese animation, it has been drawed from beginning to the end. It’s not like animation on nowadays, which is more like wax dolls and all made with computer. I love Japanese animation, because they are drawed and it makes them perfect movies. The drawingspot is precise and there are many details that makes creatures very impressive. I like that style.

In this movie, special effects are like flames and glowing and those effects just makes the scene more impressive. For example Arren’s sword glows when he drags it out from it’s sheath. The effects are very nice, I like those too. Tales from Earthsea- movie’s genre is Japanese animation. This is Studio Ghibli’s DVD- video, as like others Japanese animation movies. I love these animations and I have been watching them for 10 years already. Every movie is different and I like all those, what I’ve ever seen. And this, Tales from Earthsea, is one of my favourite animations.

Sources: http://studioghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_%28film%29
DVDs back cover
My own knowledge