SS: Thoughts on Thursday (not really) - Inkheart by Corneila Funke
One cruel night, Meggie's father, Mo, reads aloud from INKHEART, and an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction, landing instead in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie's in the middle of the kind of adventure she thought only took place in fairy tales. Somehow she must master the magic that has conjured up this nightmare. Can she change the course of the story that has changed her life forever?
My Thoughts
Cornelia Funke's writing and Anthea Bell's translation are beautiful. Cornelia weaves the words together like delicate fabric and they aren't empty pretty words but words that make you see, taste, smell and feel everything to its fullest. And the story speaks to the bookaholic in all of us.
Meggie, Mo and Elinor (Meggie's Great Aunt) are all fantastically relate-able for they all know the value of a wonderful story or a rare book. They know that a single story can take you to magnificent places and change you forever, they know a book is more than just ink on paper.
After reading this book I wished I could breathe life into the written word, I even tried it myself to read characters to life or to read myself into a book but alas I think this is only possible in the world of Inkheart or perhaps I don't have enough skill to do it. But it doesn't matter because if a book could make me wish for a silver tongue just like Harry Potter made me want to get my Hogwart's letter then I am already more then lucky to have come across it because I am able to relieve the adventure all over again by just picking it up and opening it again.
If you love stories with magic, courage, hope, and characters who make you wish you could read them to life, just to meet them, then this is the book for you.
