Author Cornelia Funke is one of our favorites and this week we have been celebrating her Inkheart series and other books from her collection. Earlier this week we jumped into her book The Thief Lord and also a deeper look at her Inkheart series here.
I’m so happy to be giving away her Inkheart Trilogy to bring your summer days alive. These are 3 of our favorite books which have been read over and over again.
Inkheart
One cruel night, Meggie’s father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART– and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.
This is INKHEART–a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.
Inkspell
The sequel to Inkheart.
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.
Inkdeath
The conclusion to the trilogy.
The Adderhead–his immortality bound in a book by Meggie’s father, Mo–has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants’ only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay–Mo’s fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrenders. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?
Giveaway Guidelines:
ONE winner will receive one copy of each book. Giveaway begins July 17th, 2015
- Prizing & samples courtesy of Author of the above books
- Giveaway open to US addresses only
- ONE lucky winner will win one copy of each of the above books (Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath)
- Residents of USA only please.
- Must be 18 years or older to enter
- One entry per household.
- Staff and family members of Audrey Press are not eligible.
- Grand Prize winner has 48 hours to claim prize
- Winner will be chosen via Rafflecopter on July 26th, 2015
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I’m writing this post on a night when I’m lost for words. (Don’t say it. OK, enough already, I’ll pay you not to say it.)
So there are many times when despite the unsociable hours, the lousy pay, yada yada, it’s good to be a writer. Actually there are many times like that: that’s why we do it. What’s more fun than larking with your imaginary friends? I get to do exactly what I used to do when I was eight, except I get paid for it: adventures on a blank sheet of A4. Any adventures you like. Any adventures
I like.
And of course there are times when it isn’t a lark. There are times when you look at the world and wish you wrote the script. We’re gods of our own little worlds, we are. We can make it all right. If we can’t make it all right, we can at least show up where it’s all wrong. It’s not happy-times, but it feels good, doesn’t it?
Then, like Fenoglio in Inkspell, we realise the whole thing’s careering out of our control and there’s nothing we can do about it. Minds of their own, these characters have. Motives of their own, too. In special little dark moments of the night, one of them might come and sit down, and pour a couple of whiskies, and explain himself. Those moments are treasure. That’s when you might finally understand why the person you made has thrust a knife into live flesh, or severed a head; why he has lied to a people and betrayed a nation; why she has pulled the legs from a fly or mugged an old lady; why he has sent hundreds of people falling through black night to their deaths.
And sometimes it helps to talk to them, in more ways than making a story. Sometimes you look at someone you didn’t make, someone on this side of the paper, and you think: ah, if only I’d written them, how different it might all have been. Or you think: well, it might have been just the same, but a story at least has an ending. A writer can play at being a little god; a writer can make redemption for everyone.
But there are times when there isn’t any explanation, there isn’t any excuse. He shrugs his shoulders and gives you a small, apologetic, slightly embarrassed smile, and he lights another cigarette.
When that’s how it is, all that can happen is the start of another story. That, at least, is what you can take with you when you’re a writer.
So I found a few words, even if they don’t make much sense.
And now please do excuse me. You know how it is. Worlds to create, people to kill.
Yes, indeed, The BRUNER BOYS BEWARE are back! Darth Bill and I saw them yesterday and had a good time. We encouraged them to write again, since it's been a long time, and they wrote back right away! Let's hear them:
Master Zach already gave Austin the BIG NEWS so we are waiting for the OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! WHOOHOOOOOOO!We are reviewing TEN things in this note to catch-up!
So, we saw the Almighty Carlman today at Imaginon and discussed some of our latest reads and checked out THESE that were just lying around... Knights of the Old Republic GN Vol 2 and Vol 3. They are awesome, of course, DUH they're jedi! And talked hush hush with Darth Bill and saw a REALLY powerful and dangerous action figure (Darth Bill says "he means business"). But Austin is half way though a book recommended by Master Zach on thursday called Something Wickedly Weird, The Wooden Mile. Austin gives this book 4 stars for being 1. easy to read, 2. A bit weird and creepy, and 3. recommended by Master Zach.
For family read-aloud we are anxious to start Inkspell because it's coming out in a movie and because Cornellia Funke is one of Mom's FAVORITE authors (she TRULY has some serious jedi writing skills).Bruner Boys also decended into the Chess Club at Mint Hill Library last Friday to sharpen our strategy skills for jedi battles ahead... we recommend it (even if the teacher is a GIRL) and are now successfully beating mom thanks to the tips we received.
We also have been watching ALL the John Wayne movies Austin can find and watched Hatari and we thought it was great(rhino catching, cheetas as pets and gun slinging)! We just finished up The Apple Dumpling Gang, which is just plain FUNNY... renting movies at the library is EASY!
One more thing to recommend... ALL THREE of the audio books of Encyclopedia Brown. You get to hear the story, then try to guess it before he tells you the answer! It great fun for the car and everyone like to listen and try to figure them out and we learned a LOT of cool stuff (like that squirlls NEVER go backwards down trees... who knew?!?!)Mom read The Alchemyst in 24 hours it was so good and is waiting patiently to get the second book. It's about a brother and sister, twins, that have these majical powers and are saving the world from the evil. It's gripping, majical, provoking. Even though she's a GIRL... she was impressed that instead of BUYING the book at Target... she could just pop into the library and pick it UP! Eldest too! PS... we want to see that mysterious author wrestle a LIVE alligator! We've asked mom to locate one so we can try out your tips.
Very good work, guys!! I'd like to find a LIVE alligator too, so we could see Darth bill wrestle it. Anyone got one at your house? Darth Bill will be very glad to hear that you're watching a lot of 
John Wayne movies--John W is, perhaps, Darth B's favorite movie star. You're right--getting movies from the library is easy. And you don't have to rent them; you can check most of them out for free!! (Just be sure it's ok with your parents) I' m also glad you're listening to audiobooks. They really are great fun ,especially on a car trip. One more thing--I'm flattered, but don't call me the Almighty CARLMAN. That title belongs rightly to another, but that's a conversation for another time. You can call me The Great and Powerful CARLMAN and still be right, though!!
Well, it's good to hear from you guys again! Don't be strangers. And here's something for you and all the other guys out there to rock out to--Thin Lizzie singing "The Boys Are Back in Town." (Yeah, that's how I got the title to this post) Rock on, dudes!
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Heehee - got to love that closing phrase!
much sense you make, Gillian regardless of the hour.
And with or without the explanation, we get to define justice. Lovely piece, Gillian.
Perfectly articulated Gillian. That cosy omniscience we have is both comforting and a curse in just the way you say it - the beauty of making things 'right' (or at least understanding the 'wrong') and the frustration of seeing characters 'on this side of the paper' (great phrase) doing the unforgivable things they do.
Let's not forget, though, that there are plenty of writers who'd actually write the 'this side' characters in more or less the same way. So the status quo's maybe not so bad.
Lovely post. Deep! Have you read Atonement?