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[startredder]

This morning I was woken up around 4:30 by the sound of Ivan gnawing on my alarm clock (this is kept on the other side of the room in a futile attempt to make me actually stay awake after the alarm goes). I ignore him and try to get back to sleep, until I hear the sound of my alarm clock being knocked on the floor.
I stagger out of bed to put the

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[nyonyo]

I bought House of Many Ways on Sunday, even though I couldn't afford it. I was supposed to save it for when I had work on Tuesday and nothing to do, but finished it almost right away. WHY ARE HOWL AND SOPHIE SO WONDERFUL. T-T

[startredder]

Magic! /Duh/.

I can't believe I managed to not read it for a whole month. My self-control is astounding!

(Howl was particularly wonderfully Howl-ish - much better Howl content than Castle in the Air, I thought.)

[valke]

Hah. I got House of Many Ways from the library, after especially requesting them to purchase it. I enjoyed the fact that we got to see more Howl and Sophie, but as usual, it's not one of those direct sequels, though it is more direct than DWJ usually does.

When I read the description of Twinkle, all I could think of was the Miyazaki Howl in miniature.

It took me a while to get into it because I so wanted to smack Charmain. She made me embarrassed to be a bookworm.

[startredder]

I was thinking cherubs myself. I don't think the Miyazaki Howl left much of a mark on my memory at all.

One of the only reactions I've seen to the book (seriously, since it was published I've seen /one/ comment on it, and before that, there was just some light gloating from an old friend who works in publishing now, who got to read it in advance) was, indeed, on Charmain. But not Charmain re: books, but Charmain as a red-haired protagonist and how red-haired protagonists are overdone and stereotypical and so on. Which is true, but I think that sort of thing should be examined within the context of an author's body of work. (If it's a first time author, yes, you can probably commence the mocking and disapproval, but how many redheads are there in Jones' canon? Luke in Eight Days of Luke and Moril in Cart and Cwidder and Crown of Dalemark ... I can't think of any others.)
Charmain re: books was, I thought, an interesting take - really, I think that bit of characterization was one of the most interesting things in the book (which I found

[tigersong]

Shinji loves my alarm clock, because when it goes off, I get up to feed him. When it goes off, he sometimes races to the door (usually at this point he's already sitting on my head purring as a wake up tactic), and sometimes he bounds gleefully over to the alarm clock and sits on it. Which, ironically, hits the snooze button.

[startredder]

I think the thing that makes Ivan's potential genius creepy is that he's /deaf/. He can't /hear/ the alarm clock. So his having noticed it is ... really rather weird.

[startredder]

My cat is mine! Get your own!