Howl's Moving Castle

I'm reading Howl's Moving Castle to Calista at bedtime now, generally a chapter a night, or less if she's really tired. Comparing it to the movie version is quite interesting. The Miyazaki film is unmistakably based on the book, with the major characters in place and, for the most part, pretty much true to their personalities. Howl is much more of a ne'er-do-well and flees responsibility at every opportunity in the book, though. The romantic subplots are more complicated and front-and-center than in the film. The ongoing war in the movie, as has widely been commented on elsewhere, is wholly a creation of Miyazaki's. The two are different in many respects, but both quite enjoyable in their own rights. It will be interesting to see how the climax of the book differs from the cinematic interpretation.

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