![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
How on earth did two of these end up packed away? Had everything between my ears rotted away, leaving me an empty skull and a grayish puddle seeping into my chest cavity? I was so misguided to pack away my fine YA friends and keep out my adult fantasy. Before I cut open the boxes, I was so desperate to reread these books that I kept checking them out of the local library. Ah, but those days are over.
Howl's Moving Castle takes place in Ingary, where being the oldest of three is a Very Bad Thing. Unwilling to suffer the inevitable failure that would result if she tried, Sophie decides to leave fortune seeking to her younger sisters. Instead, she works in the family hat shop and talks to the hats. Trouble comes to her, however, when the feared Witch of the Waste comes into the shop and turns her into an old woman. Afraid of being seen that way, she hobbles away and becomes the house keeper for Howl, a handsome wizard, famed for eating the hearts of young maidens. In exchange for taking off the Witch of the Waste's curse, Sophie agrees to help Calcifer, Howl's fire demon break his bargain with Howl. Not of course that he'll tell her what that bargain is, that would be too easy. I should probably note for anyone worried, that the cuts hide content only about as spoilery as the novels' back covers.
( I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that. )
In Castle in the Air, there is a lot of alliteration. Abdullah, a carpet merchant from Rashpuht has been prophesied to be raised above all others in the land. When he buys a magic carpet from a person of suspicious countenance, he rises literally above everyone else and flies over a palace wall and meets a princess with a prophesy of her own.
( What do you care? I'm just a daily wish in a bottle to you! )
House of Many Ways, the third and most recent book in the series, and the only one I didn't pack away, seeing as it came out after I finished the packing, is about a young gently reared girl, sent to look after the house of a distant wizard relative. Charmain though, doesn't know anything about magic, and really, she doesn't care. She just wants to get back to her books. When the wizard's apprentice shows up, she starts to wonder if she'll ever get back to her books at all.
( If we extrapolate from our findings in my earlier work, we find ourselves ready to approach an extention of the paratypical phenomenology... )
Anyway, I get so annoyed that no one seems to realize that Howl's Moving Castle has two sequels. According to Cass (also known as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eatenbyfangirls) she once was supposed to be on a panel comparing the book and the movie, and none of the other panelists knew about the sequels. Well, something just has to be done, because they rock! And well, I only pick at them because I love them.
Howl's Moving Castle takes place in Ingary, where being the oldest of three is a Very Bad Thing. Unwilling to suffer the inevitable failure that would result if she tried, Sophie decides to leave fortune seeking to her younger sisters. Instead, she works in the family hat shop and talks to the hats. Trouble comes to her, however, when the feared Witch of the Waste comes into the shop and turns her into an old woman. Afraid of being seen that way, she hobbles away and becomes the house keeper for Howl, a handsome wizard, famed for eating the hearts of young maidens. In exchange for taking off the Witch of the Waste's curse, Sophie agrees to help Calcifer, Howl's fire demon break his bargain with Howl. Not of course that he'll tell her what that bargain is, that would be too easy. I should probably note for anyone worried, that the cuts hide content only about as spoilery as the novels' back covers.
( I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that. )
In Castle in the Air, there is a lot of alliteration. Abdullah, a carpet merchant from Rashpuht has been prophesied to be raised above all others in the land. When he buys a magic carpet from a person of suspicious countenance, he rises literally above everyone else and flies over a palace wall and meets a princess with a prophesy of her own.
( What do you care? I'm just a daily wish in a bottle to you! )
House of Many Ways, the third and most recent book in the series, and the only one I didn't pack away, seeing as it came out after I finished the packing, is about a young gently reared girl, sent to look after the house of a distant wizard relative. Charmain though, doesn't know anything about magic, and really, she doesn't care. She just wants to get back to her books. When the wizard's apprentice shows up, she starts to wonder if she'll ever get back to her books at all.
( If we extrapolate from our findings in my earlier work, we find ourselves ready to approach an extention of the paratypical phenomenology... )
Anyway, I get so annoyed that no one seems to realize that Howl's Moving Castle has two sequels. According to Cass (also known as
eatenbyfangirls) she once was supposed to be on a panel comparing the book and the movie, and none of the other panelists knew about the sequels. Well, something just has to be done, because they rock! And well, I only pick at them because I love them.
