There are some small leaps into what’s almost our world, and knowing comments “I’m surely due to have a third encounter, magical or not. It’s just such a fun read, which you can see Wynne Jones had great fun writing! However, her hat-making skills have amazing effects and she ends up with powers of her own, living as the housekeeper to a wizard who MIGHT be evil and steal girls’ actual hearts, in a castle that moves around thanks to a demon in the fireplace (got that?). Sophie’s the oldest of three daughters and therefore feels doomed to be the boring one who fails in her tasks.

Diana Wynne Jones – “Howl’s Moving Castle”Ī lovely story, set in a world where all those magical things like seven-league boots are real but people are prosaically and nicely basically the same. Anyone else reading or read it recently? Well I liked it so much, I ordered the two sequels (oops). There’s still time to join in, of course – I love hearing what other people thought of books I’ve read and reviewed, even years after I posted my review! I received it for Christmas in 2018 and looking at this pile, I’m a bit horrified to see I’ve still got most of these books on my TBR (and the Thirkells will have to stay there until I’ve got the three reprints in August which fill in the wartime gaps between ones I have on there).Īnyway, hopefully Elle from Elle Thinks has been reading this one, too: Lory was thinking of it but not sure she committed. 'A wonderful blend of humor, magic, and romance.'-Publishers Weekly sortTitle Howls Moving Castle Howls Moving Castle Series Book 01 lexileScore 800 crossRefId 2393800 series Howl's Moving Castle publisher Recorded Books, Inc.This is one of the books I decided to read along with others after I published photos of the whole of my TBR and some people picked out books to read with me. On a rare venture out from her step-mother's hat shop, Sophie attracts the attention of a witch, who casts a terrible spell transforming the young girl into an old crone. PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and ALA Notable and Best of the Year in Young Adult Fiction, Howl's Moving Castle by acclaimed fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones was transformed into an Academy Award-nominated animated motion picture by Hayao Miyazaki.

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