Friday Friyay: 'Howl's Moving Castle' by Diana Wynne Jones
Happy Easter everyone! We get a full four days off here and I'm honestly very much looking forward to it. I've been doing a lot of writing and prepping for the summer semester, so I'm craving having a few days in which I can relax and read and do nothing. Also, apparently it's going to be 20 degrees here tomorrow, which feels insane. Anyways, one of the books I'm getting into this weekend is a reread, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones! I adored the Studio Ghibli film for years before reading the book, and then fell in love with that as well. So I finally bought myself a physical copy! In the land of Ingary, where seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, Sophie Hatter attracts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste, who puts a curse on her. Determined to make the best of things, Sophie travels to the one place where she might get help - the moving castle which hovers on the nearby hills. But the castle belongs to the dreaded