DWJ inventory

[flemmings]

So I dropped Howl back off at the library, thinking as I did so 'It's not due for another two weeks I bet this is a bad idea.'

I came home, finished Conrad's Fate, went to put it up on the bedroom shelves so I wouldn't be tripping over it downstairs-- and naturally started routing out all the rest of my DWJ from their various locations in order to have them all in one place. I get these tidy urges from time to time. Also I forget what books I own if I don't look them over occasionally, the more so because half my English stuff is hiding behind (pretty ancient already) manga. (Even the manga gets confusing. 'Why've I still got all this YYH here at the front? oh it's FMA.')

From this exercise I discovered that I do have The Spell-coats which I couldn't find last summer (because it's hard cover and on the bottom shelf), I don't have The Magicians of Caprona which I thought I did, I really must have given away my copy of HMC though I can't think why I would, and I *didn't* give away my copy of Castle in the Air though I thought I had. Also that I remember nothing of CitA, which I read on the plane on one of my less happy trips to Japan. (1999 feels right for that one.) So I started reading it again. And--

Lettie is with Suliman. WTF? I thought it was the Prince part of the Man of Many Parts who was besotted with Lettie. Possibly I should just buy another copy of Howl and read it until it starts making sense.

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[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

I found my copy of Howl's two nights ago. "Ah ha!" said I. Now it is gone again. I'm the most organized person ever, yes.

At any rate, the dog-dude looked like a vague version of Justin because he had Justin's head. Suliman's was that skull that got weed-killered. But he was actually a combination of spare parts from both (as previously mentioned).

Lettie became Suliman's student. (And student-type endeavors apparently lead to other type endeavors.)

Prince Justin, on the other paw, is too slick and "Dear Lady" and not especially trustworthy (as will be further elaborated in the next book), so it is good that Lettie didn't pay that much attention to him.

"Castle in the Air" isn't a Howl-like book, but it has its moments. Which is why I've bust out in spontaneous fanfic for it in the past.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Justin isn't trustworthy in that book but man is he efficient. You wouldn't expect evident ninjutsu from a prince, and he's pretty helpful to the hero. By contrast Howl is simply malicious and no help at all. Being imprisoned is no fun but there are better ways of handling it than ferocious sulks. Who wants to spring a malicious sulker? Both of course suffer from comparison to Abdullah's niceness.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, Justin reminds me more than a little of Ling in FMA. ^^

As for Howl, it seems to me (based on wobbly memory) that some portion of the curse was contributing to the unhelpful stance, but he did seem to be relishing it a bit too much. Which was rather Howl-like. I had a lot of sympathy for his sister Megan's POV in the first book.