Breathing Books

03/09/2019

Hi folks! It's with love for our readers, and a commitment to open communication, that we want to let you all know we'll be scaling back at Breathing Books. With the Rim of Heaven Foundation taking off, and Cornelia's ongoing work on severl book projects, rest assured that Cornelia's stories will continue! This is simply the close of one chapter. Our social media accounts will be going quiet after this week, but we hope you continue to keep up corneliafunke.com, which will keep up with announcements and new books!

The official website of bestselling author Cornelia Funke, where you will find all the latest news and much more about Cornelia and her books, including the MirrorWorld series, the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord, and, and, and ...

30/08/2019

A silent book club? Sign us up!!

When the bell rings, it's reading time. At over 70 chapters around the world, people gather at Silent Book Clubs to read whatever they like, as long as it's in silence.

28/08/2019

On what nudges authors to return to the series, sometimes after years away:

If our mentions are any indication, readers love a good series! And lately, more than a few authors have been adding to a series after years without a new book, or returning to write a sequel to a story after many years away.…

26/08/2019

Another ancient text! This time, a rare 2,000-year-old Buddhist scroll:

The Library's Gandhara Scroll, one of the world's oldest Buddhist manuscripts, has been painstakingly preserved and digitized, making it available to readers online after years of delicate work.

23/08/2019

Three cheers for Marley Dias, bringing books that reflect their readers to other teens and kids!

Two minutes into a conversation with Marley Dias, it’s easy to see why her star has risen so fast. In the last few years, she’s appeared on CBS This Morning, The View, and has spoken at the United …

23/08/2019

The exciting tale of a book over 1,500 years old!

Everyone from power-hungry rulers to gas-masked thieves has laid hands on the beautiful Codex Argenteus.

21/08/2019

Cornelia talks about her new book and the power of fantasy: "We can ask the big questions in fantasy: where do we come from? Where do we go? What is evil? Does life have meaning?"

Based on the screenplay by Guillermo del Toro, who also co-wrote the book, Pan’s Labyrinth is an adult fairy tale set in Spain a few years after the end of the Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia arrives at a remote outpost to live with her ailing mother and her new stepfather, a sadistic and cruel ...

20/08/2019

More groundbreaking women in every genre, please! 😃

It’s only after having completed two novels, The Lodger and The Dragon Lady, that I realize a pattern is emerging. I am drawn to writing about strong women who refused to conform and who struggled …

19/08/2019

Fun fact: did you know that Cornelia actually never liked fairytales as a child? She found them haunting and strange…and of course, grew up to put her own spin many fantastical, magical tales.

16/08/2019

"Just as we do when Handmaid’s Tale or Black Mirror plots unfold on the screen, you are most likely to read Palestine + 100 and say, this is now." On Palestinian science fiction:

As a guest of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature in 2016, my first impressions of the West Bank were marked by the surreal: sand-colored, stubby hills; an excess of barbed wire; rooftops o…

14/08/2019

Meet the 'Bookshop Caucus.' a group based out of Bookshop Santa Cruz which challenges customers to read books by Democratic presidential candidates as a way of informing their choices during the primary season:

Join us on August 18th for our own “political caucus event,” hosted by Third County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty and cosponsored by the Democratic Women’s Club of Santa Cruz County and Santa Cruz Indivisible, as the conclusion to the 2020 Vision Bookshop Caucus.

12/08/2019

How many questions can you guess correctly? 😃

The official website of bestselling author Cornelia Funke, where you will find all the latest news and much more about Cornelia and her books, including the MirrorWorld series, the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord, and, and, and ...