Commute audiobook. I enjoyed the narrator of this one.

Book was ok.

I love the moving castle. LOVE it.

I felt like a lot of interesting things happen, and I liked the interplay between Sophie, calcifer and Michael. But none of it ever quite coheres into sensical plot, with the result that I found it somewhat challenging to keep track of the characters Howl may or may not be searching for and the encounters between minor characters who were probably in disguise at the time anyway. (I blame this partly on listening while driving. I can't give ALL my attention to the book...)

Spoiler below.







But honestly the biggest issue for me is the tail end--suddenly Sophie and howl are in love, but it comes out of NOWHERE. They've spent the entire book sniping at each other, and not in a "they secretly love each other but just don't know it yet" way.