July 2012
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Tribute: Diana Wynne Jones was always there for me
miabuterflie:
This blog has become very Diana Wynne Jones-centric. Moreso than I would have imagined upon starting it. I thought I would tell you about my relationship with Diana Wynne Jones’ novels. Well, it all began in a bookshop…
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Howl's Moving Castle collectibles! →
A list of various models, books, and other ephemera related to the Studio Ghibli version of Howl’s Moving Castle. (Be sure to check out the shot of the underside of the castle model!)
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Vote for DWJ's books!
NPR’s “Best-Ever Teen Novels” poll is up and running at NPR.org. You cah choose up to ten books, and here are the DWJ books you should select:
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
Fire and Hemlock
Howl’s Moving Castle
You might also consider Garth Nix’s Abhorsen Trilogy, Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown, Tamora Pierce’s books, The...
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“If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer,...”
– from Cart and Cwidder
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Auggie's Trilogy Tuesdays: On the Castle Trilogy →
Auggie has been devoting every Tuesday in July to some aspect of Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and House of Many Ways!
“A timeless, beautifully constructed, compelling story. Diana Wynne Jones was the queen of Magic.”
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REFLECTIONS from Malaysia →
A reader and fan from Malaysia offers her thoughts on Reflections.
“I will be dipping into this book for many years to come, just as I will be re-reading Jones’s novels till I am old and grey.”
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stone soup books: Unexpected Magic, Diana Wynne... →
stonesoupbooks:
I have had this collection of short stories by Diana Wynne Jones for I-don’t-know-how-long. I don’t know where it came from or when it appeared on my bookshelf! But I picked it up for Diana Wynne Jones March hosted by Kristen of We Be Reading.
The very first story in this collection…
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“Take it from me, Fate really doesn’t care most of the time.”
– Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones
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Catchant's version of the Ideal World
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why can’t everyone be a diana wynne jones fan
or a lot more people at least. (not everyone, since some people are not worthy.)
but imagine if you could just go up to people and strike up conversations about chrestomanci or howl since people would at least have heard of these wonderful characters and this would result in lengthy discussions about dressing gowns or butter pies or...
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Andi's Book Blog: Deep Secret Review →
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Alrighty, enough of all this serious stuff for a while. Now it’s time to review some good ol’ fashioned fantasy.
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
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Obligatory Summary: When the senior Magid* of Earth dies, his replacement, Rupert, is saddled with the double task of preventing the…
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Tribute: Debbie Gascoyne →
Written by one of the lucky attendees of the 2009 DWJ conference in Bristol.
“Ask me to name a favourite of her books, and I will unhesitatingly offer Fire and Hemlock, a lovely, rich, strange, complex, bewildering and truly wonderful riff on love and heroes and reading and enchantment and poetry.”
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