13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear | 
1. Lately I‘ve been into seltzers, specifically High Noon. They‘re low calorie and don‘t give me acid reflux lol.
2. Tagged. Such a fun read!
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Anyone who feels like playing, consider yourself tagged!
pickCaptain Bluebear is the luckiest bear in all the universes and in all the dimensions. Or, depending on your perspective, he‘s the unluckiest. He seems to always find himself in the worst predicaments, but then finds a way out in either the cleverest (or luckiest) of ways. This is a chunky book full of adventure, whimsy, humor, and silliness. There are creatures and places you‘ve heard of, and many you‘ve never heard of before… (continued ⬇️)
Lunch with a book while I wait for my car to be serviced. The waiter saw me reading and started talking books… he recommended an author I haven‘t heard of before: L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Has anyone here read his work?
After a long day, nothing‘s better than bedtime reading by amber light… 🥰
Attempting to be more extroverted later tonight for an event with the awesome people from my gym… so I‘m enjoying some me-time as I mentally prepare lol. Also, Captain Bluebear is constantly getting himself into trouble and I‘m rather enjoying the crazy and extremely lucky ways he gets out of it.
A quiet moment before anyone else is awake… I‘m really enjoying this one, it‘s wonderfully strange.
“The sole purpose of my life was to love her… I felt capable of boiling away the ocean to a bowl of fish soup, just with the flames of my passion. I could have stopped the world rotating, then reversed and restarted it, just for one more glimpse of the gesture with which she stuck a daisy behind her ear.”
Yet another reason why women keep choosing the bear; they‘re attractive and mysterious lol.
This one was just strange enough to catch my eye at the bookstore, and seems a bit less suspenseful than my last read lol… a palate cleanser, so to speak.
pickThis has become an auto-pick author for me even though I think I already have all his books. I've read 2 and have 2 on the shelf for later. I love the whimsy and fantasy mash-up perfect for when I want low-med stakes and something that will make my heart bubble up with happy feels. (vs the stress I usually have while reading lol)
You'll love Bluebear and all his friends and adventures. And the art *chef kiss* def worth reading the physical copy
Back on Walter Moers ❤️ you want an easy cozy read with low stakes but beautiful worlds and whimsy? Walter Moers is your guy.
pickA treasure trove of imagination. Adventure & nonsense in equal measure, there are shaggy-dog-story stretches but also a lot of fun. Cover does well to reference Adams and Silverstein, I'd add the absurdities of Terry Pratchett's Discworld & Alice in Wonderland to the mix. Beware: certain creatures & scenarios could be nightmare fuel, and being published in 1999 means certain insensitivities crop up. ⚠️ Fatphobia
Taking a dim view of math and panicking in a crisis - I find this to be a very relatable bear. 🤦🏼♂️
Forests: such wonderful things that even fantasy is hard-pressed to improve upon them. 🌲💚
Props to the book designers: I didn't know it was possible to do that with font and page colour on a diagonal!
The keyboard: a reliable source of inspiration. ⌨️
A challenge for those choosing to read passages aloud: this one's a tongue-twister! 😵💫
Cannot get over this bear's face.
Dude looks like they've seen some shit! 😅
bailed2/5⭐ Not my thing. It's a lot of whimsy and fantastical adventures for the sake of the fantastical but without trajectory. #roll100
You might like this if you like: Abarat by Clive Barker
pickI didn‘t really care for all of the episodes (or lives) and found some of the characters a bit too generic. Yet I devoured this 700-page tome within a few days, so I guess I did like it after all?! Strange!
#20Series20Days Day 13: Zamonia
It's like, if L Frank Baum dropped acid and ....
No, wait, it's like if Daniel Pinkwater took all his ideas too crazy to develop and ...
No, it's like a love child of Jim Henson and Robert Crumb ...
Ah, never mind. It's Walter Moers's Zamonia and it's like nothing else.
@Andrew65
So excited to start this one!!!
pickThis is one of the weirdest books I‘ve ever read. I have so many questions about the brain that put this together. It was delightful and strange and unique and perfect for this weird time we‘re living in. I‘m 9ish hours into #24B4Monday and this is my first book finished.
Kicking off #24B4Monday with a giant mug of coffee and 3.5 hours left in my current read.
In case you missed it- this sweet girl was completely and totally paralyzed two months ago. It‘s been a long two months. Today is her first bed snuggle since January. My book might be open, but I‘m mostly admiring her.
I am entirely mentally unable to choose a TBR currently. So my #24B4Monday goal is to finish this book, make progress in Roots, and the rest shall remain a surprise.
We made it home and there‘s plenty of coffee and food. We will be reading and snuggling for the foreseeable future. ❤️
pickGreat book! We read it out loud as a family. My kids loved listening each night. Lots of giggles!
pick#LetsTravelJuly Day 20: Captain Bluebear‘s journey has taken a great deal of #detour but this novel is one epic ride! Some may find Moers longwinded while others might find his imagination too absurd for words and abandon the reading of the novel altogether. But no book has ever made me laugh out loud in such abandon – tears streaming down my cheeks in utter hilarity. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-4IK
pickI was a big fan of this book! The land of Zamonia that author Walter Moers created is whimsical and quirky and the illustrations that accompany the story are fantastic. It‘s 703 pages but it flies by and ended up being a fairly quick read. If you want an adult fairytale, this book is for you. Highly recommend!
Of course! When I come to think about it the best books I read had mostly over 400 pages 🤔😄
I try now and then to convince some of my not-so read-obsessed- friends to not be intimidated by size/length.
@SilversReviews
pickIt was absolutly stunning. Its a harmless, very enjoyable Fantasy book. I read the following books first so I loved how some Characters I already knew showed! But I am amazed every time about the wealth of ideas Walter Moers has :)
#Zamonien #WalterMoers
pickA book in the Douglas Adams kind of weird mindscape. Be open to every weird idea. The story gets going and it‘s very entertaining.
bailedI officially give up! This has been sitting on my table since there was still snow on the ground and I have had no desire to pick it up. It reminded me if Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy- quirky and a little out there. But it became repetitive and predictable. I didn‘t finish it but it still should have ended 300 pages ago.
#QuotsyApril18 Day 23: Take a #Chance is all that Captain Bluebear is asking. If you haven‘t discovered Walter Moers yet, and you love fantasy and word play and strange art - then you will have to HAVE TO find him and read him. Translated from the German language, I pride myself in reading all of his translated works, thus far. I am a committed nerd that way. Get to know Zamonia, book nerds! It‘s an acquired taste, I admit, but well worth it.
This is our current family read aloud, a tale of Bluebear‘s lives #inthewild of Zamonia. I love the amazing vocabulary it exposes them to, and the kids loves the giggle-inducing silliness of it all. Great stuff in spite of its 700 pages, lol.
#hopintospring
Seems you love Walter Moers – or you don‘t. I tried once or twice with his books but I could not relate to neither his characters nor the way he writes.
But as I saw @Sarah83 's post about the English edition I remembered that one of my friends offered me to lend me the audiobook. Which is what I‘d really look forward to because I think this might be a story suiting my ears better than my eyes.
Tagged for #colourinthetitle. Thank you @scripturient . So this was pretty difficult, I really had to look for right edition, so that title and colour fit. 😉
So this is the German paperback, the English one is yellow and the German hardcover is brown. 😂😂😂
Tagging @DeborahSmall and @ju.ca.no
**sigh** #catsoflitsy sorry, mom 😬 @Wife
pickGiving the 7 Days, 7 Book Covers Challenge a go!
Simply post a book cover you love - no explanation, no information on the book!
Day 1 is The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers.
Perfect chapter to read at brunch.
The first book on my Time Topple TBR... I guess I better start reading, since it is after midnight. 😃
