Howl's Moving Castle

Welcome to Episode 3 of Season 2 of Adapted with Anna and Sam! In this episode, a very special guest joins Anna and Sam, to gush over Diana Wynne Jones' 1986 novel, Howl's Moving Castle, and its 2004 Studio Ghibli adaptation of the same name. Listen as Anna's sister Jess schools us on how to summarize a story, Anna doesn't attempt a Welsh accent, and Sam accepts her lot in the family pecking order. 

You can find all the cast lists and other fun trivia on iMDB.

Purchase the book and/or movie at Amazon and/or Barnes and Noble, or your favorite indie bookstore, or borrow from your local library in person or via Overdrive. (Please support your local library!!)

Jess Recommends (Diana Wynne Jones edition)

--Castle in the Air (sequel to Howl's Moving Castle)

--Dogsbody (standalone scifi/fantasy to make you cry about stars and dogs and dogstars)

--The Chrestomanci Chronicles (a series of novelettes, each can be read in order or as standalones)

--Unexpected Magic (a collection of short stories to get your feet wet)

Honorable Mentions

--Studio Ghibli: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away

--Never gonna get old: Ghostbusters; Bueller, Bueller?; Charade

--Recommended soundtrack: Cake, Going the Distance; Disney's Hercules, Go the Distance

--What were we talking about?: Disney's Tarzan

--Amanda Plummer is the best: The Fisher King, The Prophecy, So I Married an Axe Murderer

--Should we start tracking Anna's impressions: Brian Blessed

--Future (and past) episodes?: The Last Unicorn, The Princess Bride

--Still waiting!: Donkey from Shrek; the Doctor's TARDIS

--Homework: all the work of John Donne

--Faithful adaptations?: Panic at the Disco's Brendan Urie, Bohemian Rhapsody; Alanis Morisette, My Humps

--Always an inspiration: David Bowie

--The perfect welshman: Matthew Rhys (especially on Archer)

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Credits:

Theme music credit: "Cheery Monday" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Logo credit: Fourth Wall Graphics, fourthwallgraphics.com