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Ink Heart - Cornelia Funke (German edition) - book, 5 stars, written on January 02, 2006
Done with reading and still loving it.
Yes, I know it's a children's book, but it's addicting, even more if you're a writer yourself.
The basic story is told fast: Twelve year old Meggie lives together with her father Mo, a bookbinder (or book doctor how Meggie once called him). Then, one day, their secluded life is disturbed by a stranger, standing outside their house, in the rain. It's Dustfinger, obviously an old aquaintance of Mo's, and from the moment he shows up a supernatural and magical adventure in the world of books and stories starts for Meggie.
And now what you don't find on the book's back: This book is a book about... books. And reading. And writing. And that's what makes it so great. For children, it's full of magic and adventures, which is great in its own right. But for someone a little older, it's full of complicated questions and undercurrents that make the book an experience.
At the moment there are several questions for me: What if one of *my* characters showed up at my door step? Would they really be hating me (well, *I* would... I'm a nasty author, really)? And are we all just part of "a bigger story"? Just puppets on a string for the Big Damn Writer In the Sky (kinda like "Matrix", only with books and without the stupid look they gave Keanu Reaves)?
Well, we'll see. |
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