[identity profile] ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] queensthief
I hope everyone enjoyed our first community reread of Return of the Thief. Thanks to all who participated! We're going to be taking a break from chats for a bit due to the usual business of the Holiday season, but not before giving everyone a chance to discuss their favorite books of the year. Join your fellow reprobates in the Conspiracy Room Sunday, December 12th at 6pm CT for an end of the year wrap up chat to discuss which books you read this year that were your favorite and which turned out to be duds. I hope you can join us for the final chat of the year!

To kick off the new year, [livejournal.com profile] sounis will be hosting our second WSK Book Club read in January. WSK stands for "while she knits" and is a long standing communuty catch phrase to talk about other books while MWT is "knitting" her next masterpiece. A Diana Wynn Jones series was at the top of the list for our next pick, and we all decided on the Howl's Moving Castle series to read and discuss. This will be a reread for many of you, and if you haven't already read this series, I highly reccomend it for QT fans. The character of Howl was the chief inspiration for Eugenides, and one of the many iconic lines in QT is a direct reference to Howl's Moving Castle. There are three books in the series, that we will be covering on a bi-weekly basis, and the first book was adapted by Studio Ghibli into a feature film. (If you've only seen the movie, the book is soooo much better.) Each book is a self-contained story taking place in the same universe, often with appearances from characters from previous books. This series should be readily available from public libraries.

January 3rd - 15th
Read Howl's Moving Castle (The movie will probably be discussed as well, so watch the movie too if you want!)
The chat to discuss the first book will be held January 16th.
PS: The ebook for this one is available for free if you have Amazon Prime. Just a tip! ;)

January 17th - 29th
Read Castle in the Air
The chat to discuss the second book will be held January 30th.

January 31st - February 12th
Read House of Many Ways
The chat to discuss the third book in the series will be held February 13th.


If you missed our WSK Book Club chats for The Squire's Tales, we hope you can join us for HMC. Happy Thanksgiving!

Date: 11/12/21 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Sorry for the last minute-ness of this, but tomorrow (Nov 13, 3 pm) I’m sitting in for Diana in a middle grade panel hosted by Books of Wonder to celebrate the 10th, 20th and 35th respectively anniversaries of Wonderstruck, Artemis Fowl, and Howl’s Moving Castle.

I’ll add a link in the next comment.

~mwt

Date: 11/12/21 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
https://booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcoming/fantastic-middle-grade-anniversaries

Date: 11/12/21 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Whoops! Comment was marked as spam.

https://booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcoming/fantastic-middle-grade-anniversaries

Date: 11/12/21 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Unfortunately the link goes to spam. But the information is on the event page
For Books of Wonder.

~mwt

Date: 11/12/21 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freenarnian.livejournal.com
Lovely! Does one have to sign up or get a ticket? :)

Date: 11/12/21 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freenarnian.livejournal.com
I just found the link and it looks like it's free!

(Let's see if I still have link privileges...?)
Here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fantasticmganniversaries/register

I don't know if I'll be home in time to watch, but I'm hoping!

Also: Filling in for DWJ. <3 <3 This makes my heart all glowy.

Date: 11/13/21 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
Thank you, thank you, freenarnain, for posting the link. I'm all registered, I hope to be able to make it. I'm going to create a new post on sounis to alert people who might not have seen it buried in these comments.

Date: 11/12/21 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freenarnian.livejournal.com
Happy Thanksgiving, Lady Jane! <3 So thankful for Sounis!

I have the Dec 12th chat on my calendar, and I can't wait to discuss Howl's Moving Castle in the new year!

Date: 11/13/21 12:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] checkers65477.livejournal.com
LJ, thanks for arranging all this! Looking forward to discussing All Things Howl.

Date: 11/13/21 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whataliethatwas.livejournal.com
This sounds excellent! I'm excited!
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