![]() ![]() Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness-and love. ![]() She feels that “The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Lives in her books and is as uncomfortable with the “real world” as Dustfinger is (346). Meggie says, “books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them” (19). Even before the reader learns that Mo can literally make the worlds inside books real, books are treated as miraculous. As usual, there are spoilers under the cut ( Inkspell and Inkdeath, the sequels, are not spoiled). There’s nothing quite like getting to reread a favorite book and be able to say that it’s for work. I’ve been excited to lead this discussion since I took over the club almost a year ago, and the time has finally come. For that reason, I was super excited when I found out that my library has a set of them for the 4th and 5th grade book club that I lead. I may have mentioned once or twice that Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is one of my all time favorite novels. ![]()
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