Last night I finished House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones’s most recent book and the third book set in the world of Howl’s Moving Castle after Castle in the Air. I read both Howl’s and Castle in college, and I am a huge fan of the Miyazaki film adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle, despite [...]
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House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
posted by erin on October 28, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/house-of-many-ways
The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
I just finished The Crown of Dalemark, the fourth and final book of the Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones. I think this is going to be one of those books — series — I’ll need to re-read. Gosh, add these books to the to-buy list! I read the first two books — Cart and [...]
posted by erin on October 25, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/dalemark
The low-brow and high-brow of fantasy books… and movies.
I just discovered Limyaael’s rants, thanks to a friend’s suggestion, and I’ve read through a ton of them today. I’m so much more random than she is in my blog posts and rants (and exponentially more prone to tangents), but it’s absolutely refreshing to read someone well-read, thoughtful, and full of really well-substantiated complaints, rather [...]
posted by erin on October 22, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/the-low-brow-and-high-brow-of-fantasy-books
Romance novels & Twilight ranting
I’ve read three books lately: Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, and A Hunger Like No Other and No Rest For the Wicked by Kresley Cole. (The titles. I KNOW. Oy.) They’re all three legitimate romance novels and I’m a bit embarrassed to say I really enjoyed them. You get past the gratuitous [...]
posted by erin on July 22, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/romance-novels-twilight-ranting
