I so very much wish I could be at that conference.

I pretty much have a set of four favorites, and have given up on ranking them: Fire and Hemlock, Howl's Moving Castle, The Lives of Christopher Chant, and The Homeward Bounders. With others running close behind, like Eight Days of Luke, which was my first introduction to Norse mythology and permanently warped my view of Loki. But if I had to pick one, like you, I would go for F&H, because that's the one that made me become a writer.