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I've seen increasing buzz around here about Howl's Moving Castle (book). I think you all deserve to know that all of Diana Wynne Jones's books are filled with characters and plots that are absolutely as delightful and unhinged as that one.
Some Actual Plots include:
Dogsbody - The star Sirius is accused of murder and sentenced to exile on Earth in the body of a dog until he finds a magical item called a Zoi. He's adopted by a young Irish girl living with her abusive and neglectful English relatives. He has to balance his desire to find the Zoi with needing to be a Good Dog for the girl who takes care of him. Also the Wild Hunt is there. Hexwood - A girl finds a magical wood behind her house where she meets a wizard who thinks he's a convict of the intergalactic government, a boy created by the man to destroy said government, and a robot found in a junk heap. The magic wood is actually an alternate reality being generated by an AI who has a grudge to settle with the head of said government. The book is about abuse, PTSD, and trauma. The Dark Lord of Derkholm - Magical world is being destroyed by a company using it as an isekai amusement park for people from another dimension. Bio-wizard is appointed Dark Lord for the year, and he and his family (four of whom are bioengineered griffins) have to find a way to survive the season while everything is going wrong. Deep Secret - Interdimensional detective/diplomat/wizard needs to find a replacement for his deceased mentor. He does so at a fantasy convention, while trying to keep an interdimensional empire from collapsing into civil war after the emperor is assassinated along with all of his heirs.
She's an absolute master at weaving fantasy elements into the mundane world and writing from the PoV of kids. Her books are funny, clever, and full of delightful characters. I'm begging you all to check them out.
dumping all my Dogsbody fanart on main. I love the Luminaries. they are so fun and quirky
Dogsbody
it’s about the love between a girl and her dog, but it’s also about the complex dynamics between three children, two cats, and a dog in an abusive household, but it’s also about the politics of stars, but it’s also about a welsh god of the dead, but it’s also about the troubles
my favorite thing about dogsbody by diana wynne jones (this is all going to be a lie because actually my favorite thing about dogsbody is the Entire Book) is that you can recommend it to fans of ANY genre.
>sci fi (high tech weapons! interstellar hijinks!)
>historical fiction (sorry for calling it that to everyone reading this who was alive during The Troubles!)
>fantasy (stars are people?!)
>mythology (welsh and celtic mythology! the wild hunt!)
>realistic fiction (young girl goes to live with various levels of evil relatives in a foreign country, deals w racism; on the other side, levels of trust in relationships, making friends when your social status changes)
>animal stories (a girl and her "dog"! what it's like to BE a dog!)
>mystery/crime (everything about the framing crime that gets sirius ~banished to earth, where is the zoi, who is The Master, what is the truth?)
anyway, it's my favorite diana wynne jones book, Which Is Saying Something. check it out from the internet archive here!
I recently read Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones, and discovered a new favorite author.
“And there, sitting in the center of the green meadow, Sirius remembered a little. He felt as if, inside his head, he was sitting in a green space that was vast, boundless, queer, and even more alive than the meadow in which his body sat.” –Diana Wynne Jones, “Dogsbody”