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Suddenly a sequel comes out to a trilogy finished 17 years ago, and it brings back all the reading joy I remember feeling back then 🤩

If you want to read about books being magic, inspiring and devouring both, these are the books for you: Inkheart and the rest by Cornelia Funke.

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Reading the new Cornelia Funke fairytale collection and it's just further proof that the GOAT never once misses

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Hi! Without too much spoilers, what is your opinion on the last Inkheart book? I managed to read a bit of it through google because it is not out in my country and idk when it will be, but some pages were hidden for copyrights reasons so I think I lost a big part of plot/character's development unfortunatly.

I liked the style of what I read but without the passages that I couldn't read I wasn't able to form an opinion on the story in itself and I missed important part of the arcs of some characters.

Hello! Thank you for the question!

So, honestly, I'm still not sure how to answer that. The original trilogy means so much to me, and I put so much time and energy into the Inkworld over the years that judging TCoR objectively was always going to be pretty impossible.

I think a lot of people were somewhat disappointed because they expected a direct continuation of Inkdeath, and TCoR is very noticeably not that. It's really its own thing, and focuses on very different, and sometimes entirely new characters (fans of the Folcharts are starving this winter). I think it's definitely important to look at it as a standalone thing... even though people who haven't read the trilogy would probably be pretty lost.

(It's honestly pretty funny to go back to the ending of Inkdeath, which seems to very obviously set up Dante as the possible main character of a then-hypothetical continuation - and then you start TCoR and it's Oops All Orpheus, with Dante literally irrelevant. RIP.)

There were definitely parts I really really enjoyed (I am always here for explorations of the complicated relationship between Dustfinger and the Prince, always-), but I'd say that some things seemed a little rushed/were just thrown at us and not explored as much as they could have been - but, then again, I've said that about parts of the trilogy as well. It did stand out to me more in TCoR, though. Maybe because it concerned characters we know so well, so introducing new elements to their story as though they had always been a part of them feels strange.

You could definitely tell that Cornelia kept up the whole "Inkworld and Mirrorworld are the same"-thing, and I still don't like that, so I occasionally rolled my eyes at the more fairytalesque stuff, but it actually wasn't as grating as I had feared.

I'll reread the book over christmas and see what I make of it one year later! I'll probably just reblog this with additional thoughts.

Plus, I mean, I do have that reading diary I kept when I read TCoR for the first time. It's not that I have nothing to say about it, I just have to find a way to make any of my thoughts comprehensible. We'll see how that goes. :D

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"(...) Recently the Catholic Church in Cologne denied me permission to film when I wanted to use one of their fancy downtown properties to talk to Cornelia Funke about her magnificent Inkworld trilogy. Too unchristian was the message of Funke's books, the Cardinal in Cologne suggested, to allow a conversation about it in a Catholic house of prayer."

lmao

Another common katholische Kirche L *circus music starts playing*

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#farid the first few chapters of inkdeath /via @lostandbackagain

so excited for these three new emojis in particular

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#03 drawing for Inktober

Based on The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

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Reblogging this post to say, yeah, my silence will continue another month.

Regarding The Color of Revenge:

Please, please, PLEASE tag your spoilers! The American version doesn’t come out until November and so far, I’ve been able to avoid spoilers by blocking the TCoR tags specifically. I would hate to have to block the main fandom tags as well, but I’ve been waiting 20 years for this and I would really appreciate not having it spoiled for me! Thank you!

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tomorrow.

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love how they're never normal about each other

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i dont know how to explain it but joining extremely small fandoms with only a few people in them feels like this

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#DID SHE EXPLAIN HOW INKWORD AND MIRRORWORL IS THE SAME WORLD BUT HAS DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF MOONS#inkworld refers to the moon#and the mirrorworld has two moons#where did the second one come from /via @i-live-in-dreams

WHAT.

I never managed to read the Mirrorworld books WHAT.

W H A T

Funke Zoom Call Let's Go

First question the usual "Why write another book" and she goes "murder" I love it here

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Bookbinder, Adderhead, Swallow, Firedancer.

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Buchbinder, Natternkopf, Schwalbe und Feuertänzer. Die Weissen Frauen strecken ihre bleichen Hände nach der Natter aus. Herz - Blut - Tod.

Watercolour, Ink, Coloured Pencil.

20.07.2024

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ah man this is stuff from about 1 year ago but i like coming back to it...

This is hildegunst von mythenmetz, a known Zamonian writer!! Basically, i wanted to redesign the books by hildegunst von mythenmetz Walter Moers in my style for uni....and these were the skecthes i did but to be fair i just wanted to draw more of Moerses characters xd

Ive known these books for a long time and its such a shame so little people know about them! Theyre mostly popular in germany and sadly they stopped translating them... Im not sure how i can sell you this series but City of Dreaming Books is great, it reminds me of grimms fairy tales but theyre humoristic as well, and moers did the illustrations for it himself... Recently a visual novel of the book i mentioned came out and its looking real pretty as well (also the books mostly feature non human characters which is cool for me i like creatures)

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I swear I saw someone here fancast goran višnjić for mortimer a few years ago and revisiting it now, it's still a pretty inspired choice imo

+bluejay bluejay bluejay

most importantly he's 6'4 aka fucking huge??

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I literally took a deep breath like I was about to explain, out loud, to my laptop, that this is a bad translation.

@randomguyno3462 already pointed it out in the replies, but what Dustfinger actually says is "I'd rather tell my children about nice people, too."

When I read it for the very first time, this actually made me wait for Dustfinger's children to show up throughout the entire book, because that sentence made it pretty clear they existed, so... where were they?

WILD to just add "If I had" in front of that WHAT was the reason??

Dustfinger! You little-

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me: how about you stop “scrolling” your “dash” and start dashing to deliver me scrolls

my useless apprentice: why do you pay the homunculus more than me