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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

Diana Wynne Jones

Start date: January 13, 2016

Finish date: January 16, 2016

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Jul 29, 2012 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy-and-sci-fi, children-s, tween, interesting-women, saw-the-movie-b4-i-read-the-book

from the NPR poll of best young adult fiction

I love the movie (Christian Bale!!!) so I read the book. And now I want to watch the movie again!! The beginning is exactly the same, but the ending is all different. The book has an entire storyline about Sophie's two sisters and stepmother - I don't remember them at all in the movie. And the movie has some really nefarious looking characters (the Witch of the Waste's servants) who are much less scary in the book. The movie has Howl turning into a b ...more

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Sep 19, 2022 Maryam rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook, fantasy, children

Review to come!

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Jan 03, 2018 Heather - hturningpages rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: loved-it, children-s

This was absolutely delightful!

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Jun 06, 2008 martha rated it liked it

Shelves: year-2012, speculative-fiction, kindle, year-2005

Couldn't get into any of the books I was reading, so obviously the answer was DWJ comfort food, in the form of the only one of her books I had on my Kindle.

Unfortunately this is actually one of my least favorite of her books: it's so squabbly and cranky, and I get frustrated with Sophie for all her assumptions, and for not trying harder to get rid of her spell, even though I know the point is that she doesn't really want to.

That said, it's DWJ, so it's still plotty and intricate and fun and funn ...more

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Oct 03, 2008 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, kiddie, fairytale, favorites

I have no idea why I hadn't read this book yet. I love Diana Wynne Jones, in fact her books are some of the first I remember reading after the Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables books. Her writing is light and lucid enough for a young child, but deep enough in plot and unexpected twists and turns to satisfy a more mature reader.

One of my most enjoyable reads in the last couple of years. I had already seen the animated film, but the book was equally delightful. I didn't remember ...more

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Oct 06, 2007 Grace rated it really liked it

We watched the movie and I couldn't figure out what was going on, so I had to read the book! The book was much more comprehensible than the movie. ...more

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