Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Well, here it is! The title for our first ever Live Together, Read Together program.
It all begins one rainy night with a stranger standing outside Meggie’s house. A stranger that her father knows, but has never mentioned. A stranger who does not call her father Mo, but Silvertongue. A stranger named Dustfinger.
From there, Meggie and Mo are packing up and leaving their house, heading south. Along the way Meggie begins to piece together what is so special about this book named Inkheart, why her father has never read out loud to her, and what might have happened to her mother ten years ago.
I am not a real lover of fantasy as a rule, but this book I could not put down. I love the idea, the writing, the adventure. Mo is one of my favorite characters in a long time. It took me awhile, but Dustfinger is too.
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Inkheart is a very good read. It may seem a little childish what with people comming out of famous novels and the evil group led by the dark Capricorn, but something about it makes you want to read it more. take the challenge and dare to read it aloud!
Ah, reading it out loud is a great idea. I could hardly put the book down when I first started reading it. One of my favorite things are the quotes that appear at the beginning of each chapter. After you’ve read the chapter and go back to look at the quotes you can see how they perfectly captured the essence of that chapter. Amazing! Not sure how I feel about the upcoming movie…
omg!!!! i read inkheart and LOVED it. it was sooo good. i couldn’t put it down. i read more than 100 pages the first night i got it. i couldn’t believe how good it was. i love meggie, she is so inspiring and brave. I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is impossibe to say enough about this book. Within weeks I was through with INKHEART, but I have INKSPELL. I am so incredibly fasinated with Dustfinger, but the caracter (sorry, i cant spell) that I’ve totally, completly fallen for is Farid. When he was introduced, I wasn’t that fond of him, but now I am. One of my favorite things about the story is the……the reasons. Why does the only living thing that Dustfinger took to, is to lead him to his death? I don’t know. Ask Fenoglio. Ask Ms. Funke. But also something that I am really keen to find out is mre of Capricorn’s past. What was his birth-name? What experiences lead him to be so fond of the red roster. But I think that the one to watch is Basta. All the villians in this book have little weaknesses. Look at Basta: he’s supersitcious, knife-happy, and takes any bad comment a girl he likes makes to heart. All though to the end of the book (Inkheart) he seems to get stronger. In Inkspell he may be the main threat. It is also cool how once I read a certian passage, I would sometimes think to myself “hey, that sounds important” and reread it. I think that it is amazing how, in this book, 3 words can make the biggest differece, have the largest impact…………..WOW!
I loved the story, and I think that it would be fun for the town if we worked together and put on a play based on this wonderful book.
I can’t wait to hear your comments when you finish Inkspell. That has such an ending, and the third and final book isn’t out yet. Dustfinger is one of my favorite characters too. If not my favorite. And Basta, I was far more afraid of him than I was of Capricorn.