The writings of Diana Wynne Jones are ones that I've sincerely wished I'd discovered far sooner in life. Oh, to have grown up in the worlds of Chrestomanci and the Wizard Howl and so many others...

As it was, I didn't discover her writings until sometime after Miyazaki's envisioning of Howl's Moving Castle came out in theatres over here. ( Read more... )

Cleaning my room last week made me realize two things. One, that I've acquired a lot of books in the past couple months and two, that I really need to get a big bookshelf to put said books on (along with others that've been sitting in boxes and whatnot since we moved here.)

( Books I've read since May )