Book Love, But Different Worlds

   Hello everyone! With this new blog post, I want to talk about my new favorite book (so far) The Book Thief by Makus Zusak and the current book that I'm reading, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. If you don't know what The Book Thief is about, then read my other blog post called Person vs. Book, where I talk a little bit of what The Book Thief is about. If you haven't read Inheart yet, then let me tell you. The story is about Mo, the father of Meggie (Mo and Meggie are the main heroes of this book) and as he was reading a book called Inkheart one night, he releases an evil ruler whose name is Capricorn and his world is now present in the world of Mo and Meggie.

    Anyways, as I am reading Inkheart, I noticed that Meggie and Liesel share their fondness of literature contained in books. For example of page 39 of Inkheart, the author writes, "He added something else, but she wasn't listening anymore. She was just staring at the books. The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood. They went all the way up to a sky-blue ceiling with tiny lights in it, hanging there like stars." This shows that Meggie isn't focused on what Mo was saying previously and was more fascinated with Elinor's (another character in Inkheart) library. On page 121 of The Book Thief, the narrator says, "The heat was still strong enough to warm her when she stood at the foot of the ash heap. When she reached her hand in, she was bitten, but on the second attempt, she made sure she was fast enough. She latched onto the closest of the books. It was hot, but it was also wet, burned only at the edges, but otherwise unhurt." This shows that Liesel loves books that she literally steals books even if they were in a fire because of her love for literature.

     Even though Inkheart and The Book Thief's main characters love books, there are other things that are different between these two books. For example, The Book Thief set in 1939 Germany, the time period of The Holocaust. While Inkheart is set in a different time period with events that didn't happen in real life. Even though The Book Thief is completely different compared to Inkheart, I would recommend all of you to read these two books.