Inkheart
Registered by 
GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 3/30/2019
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 3/30/2019 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I got this hardcover at a local Goodwill thrift shop, for another release copy.
I "read" Inkheart first via audio download from Audible.com, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a wonderful book-lover's book, with some marvelous characters. I adore poor homesick Dustfinger, and young Farid, and the horned marten - who's anything but a cuddly Disney-style sidekick; and young Meggie's aunt Elinor, who was more of a bookaholic than even I am... And the nightmarish possibilities of the power to read things - and people - into and out of books is, while not entirely new, wonderfully developed by Funke. [I enjoyed her Thief Lord too, and noticed that both books have a strong undertone of melancholy and loss beneath the wonder - a nice touch.]
I've read the sequel, Inkspell, but I found it a bit of a letdown after this one, and I haven't tackled the third book, Inkdeath. (I've seen the film version of Inkheart, which has a wonderful cast, but which seemed to have sacrificed some of the original story for the sake of additional special effects...)
[There's a TV Tropes page for the trilogy, with lots of interesting info, but beware of spoilers.]
I "read" Inkheart first via audio download from Audible.com, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a wonderful book-lover's book, with some marvelous characters. I adore poor homesick Dustfinger, and young Farid, and the horned marten - who's anything but a cuddly Disney-style sidekick; and young Meggie's aunt Elinor, who was more of a bookaholic than even I am... And the nightmarish possibilities of the power to read things - and people - into and out of books is, while not entirely new, wonderfully developed by Funke. [I enjoyed her Thief Lord too, and noticed that both books have a strong undertone of melancholy and loss beneath the wonder - a nice touch.]
I've read the sequel, Inkspell, but I found it a bit of a letdown after this one, and I haven't tackled the third book, Inkdeath. (I've seen the film version of Inkheart, which has a wonderful cast, but which seemed to have sacrificed some of the original story for the sake of additional special effects...)
[There's a TV Tropes page for the trilogy, with lots of interesting info, but beware of spoilers.]
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Mellen St. in Needham, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Mellen St. in Needham, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Released 5 yrs ago (4/2/2019 UTC) at Little Free Library, Mellen St. in Needham, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book in the Little Free Library in Needham MA; hope someone enjoys it![See other recent releases in MA here.]
*** Released for the 2019 Movie release challenge. ***
