My Best Reader and I have, for some years, been reading aloud to each other at bedtime. We choose novels, usually, and often choose Young Adult (aimed, more or less, at 9-12 years) books. Our most recent choice was Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, which had been recommended as a gift for a 10-year-old friend of ours, and which gift was enjoyed by said 10-year-old.
And then by us. It’s a terrific book, and it works quite well aloud. I’m trying to think of a good comparison... it’s not really Harry Potteresque, although the protagonist discovers that our world has much more magic than she knew, and that her own magic is strong. It’s more like Treasure Island, although it’s set in the modern world, and the villains are scarier and less outrageous. On the other hand, my Best Reader thinks it’s more like Charlotte’s Web than Treasure Island, so make what you will of that. At any rate, we agree that it’s very good. I think it’s the best YA book I’ve read since The Eye, the Ear, the Arm; it might be better than that one or worse, but since they are both very good, what are the odds, anyway.
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-Vardibidian.
Hm. I had been eyeing Inkheart as a book I might like to read. We’d also been looking for a book to read aloud at bedtime. Thanks for the recommendation!
The sequel is almost out.
One of the things that most impressed me about Inkheart was that it is a translation, and still is one of my favorite books. It never felt translated, even with reading it out loud where oddities get magnified.
I thought that as a YA book and an easy English read, the original would be a good way to practice my German. Bzzt. I’ll still get a copy sometime, but the excerpt I read in German convinced me I’ll never get through the whole book in the original.
where is the report????
were is the report
The report is displayed in a font that only adults can see, using the inverse of the sound frequencies that adults cannot hear.