During World War II, we lived in Virginia and North Carolina, and when our family's return to China was indefinitely postponed, we moved to various towns in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, before my parents settled in Winchester, Virginia.īy that time, I was ready to begin college. The following year, we had to refugee a second time because war between Japan and the United States seemed inevitable.

I missed him very much, and in telling him so, I managed a piece of writing I am not ashamed of to this day.Ī lot has happened to me since I wrote that letter.

We were living in Shanghai, and my father was working in our old home territory, which at the time was across various battle lines. I say fortunately, because the samples that did manage to survive are terrible, with the single exception of a rather nice letter I wrote to my father when I was seven. Fortunately, very few samples of my early writing survived the eighteen moves I made before I was eighteen years old. I must have tried writing soon afterward. I know I began reading when I was four or five, because I couldn't stand not being able to.

When I was twenty, I wanted to get married and have lots of children.Īnother question I can't answer is, 'When did you begin writing?' I can't remember. But when I was ten, I wanted to be either a movie star or a missionary. One is, 'When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?' The fact is that I never wanted to be a writer, at least not when I was a child, or even a young woman. Bridge to Terabithia is an uplifting soundtrack even if, ironically enough, it feels a little lacking in imagination at times, it should please fans of the movie.People are always asking me questions I don't have answers for. Zigman's score is pleasant and appropriately magical-sounding, especially on the soaring, sparkling 'Into the Forest.' 'The Battle' goes from thunderous to mournful, providing the bridge between the imaginary and real lives of the story's characters. Bethany Dillon's 'When You Love Someone' and Jon McLaughlin's 'Another Layer' stay in that template while providing a little variety, but the most distinctive track belongs to Everlife, whose 'Look Through My Eyes' brings a little rock energy to its choruses. Most of the songs are sweet, earnest, acoustic guitar-driven songs that fit in well with the film's themes of friendship, inspiration, and imagination in fact, the first three tracks, 'I Learned from You' by Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana), 'Try' by Hayden Panettierre (aka Heroes' indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet), and Annasophia Robb's 'Keep Your Mind Wide Open' are so similar that they sound like one extra-long song. The soundtrack to the 2007 film adaptation of Katherine Paterson's classic young adult novel Bridge to Terebithia features tween-friendly songs as well as excerpts from Aaron Zigman's score.

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