Inkheart

Title: Inkheart

Author: Cornelai Funke

Genre: middle grade fiction, fantasy, books turned into movies, MountTBRChallenge2020

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."

Have you ever read a book that was so wonderful and lifelike you wish the characters could leap from the page into the real world? Well, this is what happens in Inkheart and although it sounds wonderful to a bookworm, accidentally inviting fictional characters to our world has serious consequences...

Meggie lives with her father who repairs books for a living; they live a semi-nomadic lifestyle because of Mo's occupation but also for a more sinister reason. When Meggie was three years old, her father was reading aloud to Meggie's mother one night (from a book called Inkheart!) when *BAM* strange men appeared in their living room and Meggie's mother disappeared. That's how Mo discovered his "gift"- he could summon forth fictional characters into our world, but unfortunately, he has no control over who leaves this world and who enters it. After this tragic night, Mo and Meggie were on the run from Capricorn, the most notorious and vicious villain in Inkheart, and his henchmen. Finally, Capricorn catches up to them (no thanks to the fair weather "friend" Dustfinger) and forces Mo to read certain passages from books that will increase Capricorn's material wealth and power. While Dustfinger longs to return to his magical world, Capricorn revels in the wealth and potential power of this world. 

While this is a fantasy and adventure story written for tweens and above, it is also a love letter to books and bookworms that a book nerdy adult would enjoy. I watched the movie a few months ago on Netflix and now that I am teleworking from home and all the local libraries are closed, it was the perfect time to start reading books on my To Be Read pile/bookshelf/mountain.