Welcome to Litsy!

Farmer's market this morning! 💕🍎🍓 Got my usual tea and apple cider donuts! Luckily there was a bench that was free so I was able to sit and read too!

I first read this book (and the other two in the trilogy) years and years ago! And it has always stuck with me, because I really do have a soft spot for a book about books! 🤭 Since Cornelia Funke is coming out with a new book in the series this fall, I figured now would be a fun time to revisit the series! 💕📖

Of course it also helps that they redesigned the covers and I absolutely adore them!

I have a 4 day weekend starting TODAY! 🥰 I'm so happy! I may have wandered downtown into the new bookstore again! Oops! 🤭📚📚📚 Also, iced jasmine tea is absolutely heavenly in this warm weather! 💕

I'm so happy to be alive! ☀️

Also, as I've been sitting here with my tea and book stack I have directed 3 different people to the bookstore after they asked me about all the books on my table! 😂

Thought I‘d jump on the #CoverLove bandwagon for July! I really enjoyed this when I read it back in 2007. Might be time for a reread!♥️📕
#red

A soft pick as I found the some of the actions a bit too simplistic. But I wonder how I would have felt about this book if I had read it when I was younger.
#roll100
#24in2024

Rereading one of my childhood faves between the annual post-summer deep clean

Low pick. I found the story interesting and the characters compelling, but I just had the hardest time picking it back up (some of that is literal, but I‘m seeing the rheumatologist this week for joint pain🤞🏻). It‘s hefty for sure. Meggie gets pulled into an adventure involving her father and some villains he accidentally pulled out of a book nine years earlier. Danger and misfortune ensue.

#quotes #bookworms #reading

Well, so much for only doing #bookspin next year 🤣 Since I read a lot of series anyway, I figured I'd join in for #SeriesLove2023 📚 I have a few more on another page, and I'm sure more will be added throughout the year!

Thanks for hosting, @Andrew65 and @TheSpineView

And Merry Christmas, everyone ❤🎄

I tried to like this book, but found it pretty boring for some reason.
#bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

#Movie2BookRecs @klou
Prompt: The Never Ending Story

I love this series. And there is supposed to be a 4th in the series out in October!

#LetterI #AlphabetGame

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Two of three in the fantastic Inkheart series are #600pluspages.

#Bookmoods @Eggs
 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Loved it. One of my favorites. Ok middle school, third book gets a bit darker.

I had forgotten most of this upon reading it again after many years. I felt like it could have been a bit shorter, but it‘s a unique story with good characters. A book for book lovers.

#Readers #MayMoms
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I love this dedication 🤓

3 ⭐️s
I was hoping to like this book more than I did…
Characters were a bit cardboard-like. There were a fair amount of parts where action happens “off screen” and we‘re told about it after the fact. The book could have been cut in half and still be a comprehensible story, and I actually PREFER long books. The lack of responsible, critical thinking from any adult character was headache inducing. Might continue the series, but not anytime soon.

Fantasy fans will be PSYCHED to see an Inkheart episode of my book podcast, but here‘s the thing — as I learned reading this book for the first time, it‘s a story for *all* book lovers! I like to think this episode is for all book lovers, too. Debut author Akshaya Raman is my guest, and we had the best time talking about world building, the reader/author relationship, and more. 📖 Link to listen in my bio!

📚 Bilbo Baggins! We'd cook and enjoy all the yummy food from his many pantries 😂

📚 Hmm.. try something new that you've always wanted to, but have put off. I did that with watercolor painting and drawing, and it helped me so much!

📚 Hard to choose a favorite... I think I'd have to go with Inkheart by Cornelia Funke!

#sundayfunday
@ozma.of.oz

So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.

#QuotsyOCT21 day 10: terror

1. Yep. I probably only read the blurb about 20% of the time. Covers and titles can almost always sway me one way or the other.
2. Inkheart is one of my favorite books.

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

1. For book, it's Inkheart. For movie, it's You've Got Mail. I love both of them to pieces.

2. The Thursday Murder Club by Osman would make a terrific movie, if they get the right cast.

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

There is no place I would rather be but in a book, another world, another time… just started another book while still reading 2 others.. I don‘t know how to read one book at a time 😁

“Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the #worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. — Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain” #QuotsyJul21

‘Soon!‘
The word dropped like a stone into the silence.

‘Word of honour – no crossed fingers?‘ Meggie looked him straight in the eye. She could always tell when Mo was lying, however hard he tried to hide it from her.

Stacks of books were piled high all over the house – not just arranged in neat rows on bookshelves, the way other people kept them, oh no! The books in Mo and Meggie‘s house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There were books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the wardrobe, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Tomorrow's the day! Starting this with some buddies over at #booksandteabc discord. One chapter a day for me since I have other books I'm reading.

#TBR for July 2021, starting with tagged book.

Hopefully I can finish my June reads this week so I can start new ones. 🤞🏽😄

Beautiful book, I enjoyed it so much.

“The book she had been reading was under her #pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.” #QuotsyMay21 #QuotsyCatchup

#MoviesInApril @Klou
Prompt: Rise of the Guardians

this book is awesome i can only recommend it!

Something fun and lighthearted 😊 I had the chance to ask one of my favorite singers what his favorite books are and share some of mine in return, and he's going to give one of my favorite books (tagged) a go 📚📚📚 It was fun getting to share the bookish love today and provided a perfect bright spot!

I treated myself to these beauties as an early Christmas present. I adore these new covers!

Just finished These Broken Stars, absolutely loved it! It took a surprising twist at the end. Now to wait for the next novel in the mail, I‘m going to be rereading my favorite childhood book! I absolutely adore this book, even now as an adult. What was your favorite novel as a child?

“Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,” he had once told Meggie. “Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it‘s like going to the theater. First you see the curtain. Then it‘s pulled aside and the show begins.”

--#Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Maybe I'll spend some time tomorrow checking out "curtains" of my books. From memory I know #TheHazelWood has beautiful end papers ?

🍂Tagged! I don‘t know why, it just feels very autumn-y to me
🍁No, not yet! I don‘t really pick TBRs this far in advance lol
🧆Goulash! Yum 😊
🍃That‘s a hard one—I feel like I listen to podcasts more in that time, so I‘m going to go with The Penumbra Podcast
#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

“If you take a book with you on a journey an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it..the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper; memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

#ForeverNovember #Memories

#20Series20Days @Andrew65 One of my favorite fantasy series. Wouldn't you love to be able to read aloud words and make them real? And, I love the fact that Cornelia Funke had Brendan Frazier in mind while she wrote her books.

Some books should be tasted
Some devoured
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested thoroughly...

Let bookworms gnaw his entrails...

Finally getting around to reading this . Do much better than the movie

1. I Am Legend
2. Greg Iles
3. Inkheart
4. The Irish Rovers
5. I Dreamed a Dream

#letterI #ManicMonday @JoScho

Book— tagged!
Author— Kazuo Ishiguro
Movie— Independence Day
Band— Imagine Dragons
Song— Iconic by LEDGER
#manicmonday #letteri