Inkheart Meg
A year or so ago I signed up to do some kind of online penpal thing and it required the child and I to pick out a book we would read together and write to each other about it. (Ideally it is for people who live away from each other) This was to be done with my son and I, it was a beta test kind of thing. I picked out the book since it was free and my son wasn’t showing any interest in the plan. I picked out Inkheart mostly because I couldn’t find anything else on the list that I’d be interested in and I think I read somewhere that if you liked Lord of the Rings, you’d like this one.
I got the book and only felt compelled to try to read a little of it to be able to play along with the beta test and be able to have something to say. I couldn’t believe how fast I got interested in the book. I couldn’t put it down, then I got the second of the triolgy, Inkspell and finished that quickly, too. I signed up to pre-order the third book which just recently came out. Exercise and blogging has taken over, so reading and tv has nearly come to a standstill. Therefore, I haven’t finish the last book of the series, Inkdeath. The movie with Brendan Fraser is set to be released in theaters in January 23rd. I’ll definitely go see it but in the past after reading a book and then seeing a movie, it’s easy to be disappointed in the latter.
Inkheart (original title: Tintenherz) is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkworld trilogy. The book is about a 12-year-old girl named Meggie Folchart whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that her father, a bookbinder named Mortimer (Mo), has an unusual ability: when he reads aloud, he can bring characters from books into the real world.
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It is all about this man, his wife and daughter, and his sister too. They all have this deep love for books. Mortimer, the father, is a book binder. The best. He loves books and take very good care of them, fixes them. He reads very well. So rich that the charcters come out of the books, and it’s found be vice versa. His wife disappeared into a book in replacement of other characters coming out. Meggie, their daughter, has grown up a few years later and finds out she has the talent her dad does. Turns out she has more than just that talent. There’s all kinds of colorful characters and adventure that keeps you glued to the book.