Back on Walter Moers ❤️ you want an easy cozy read with low stakes but beautiful worlds and whimsy? Walter Moers is your guy.
Back on Walter Moers ❤️ you want an easy cozy read with low stakes but beautiful worlds and whimsy? Walter Moers is your guy.
A 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
Yes, please.
Let's put it to a vote, shall we? 🙌🏻
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! 😅
2/5⭐ 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
I 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!!!
This 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. ❤️
Great book! We read it out loud as a family. My kids loved listening each night. Lots of giggles!
#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
I 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
It 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
A book in the Douglas Adams kind of weird mindscape. Be open to every weird idea. The story gets going and it‘s very entertaining.
I 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
Giving 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. 😃
I️ almost missed it! #NovemberbytheNumbers I️ love how my #thirteen #13 books both have fractions 😁
#cult5 @Heideschrampf tagged me for this challenge.
Thank you. This is my choice.
@Bambolina_81 @Yellowpigeon wanna show us yours?
Day 3 and 4 of #septemberboger. I combined the two. #Bookmark and yellow #book. And yes, I cheated and took this picture inside... 😉
@rachelsbrittain challenged me to do ombre in the #bookcolortag. I tried a couple of different colors, but I liked yellow/orange best.
Audible is having a $3.95 children's book sale, so I stocked up on a few. I don't necessarily think the tagged book is a children's book, but since I loved it, I snatched up the audio! #bookhaul #audiobooks
So as usual I went a little crazy and took Audible's advice and shopped the sale! At least 3 of these were already on my endless TBR. Lol the listening never ends!
Das Buch hat mir sehr gefallen und definitiv nicht nur etwas für Kinder.
Walter Moers hat einen ganz eigenen Humor, der mir sehr gefallen hat. Die Geschichte ist sehr originell, der Schreibstil angenehm und die Illustrationen setzen dem Ganzen dann die Krone auf.
Klare Leseempfehlung 5/5
Love the story and the pictures.
My son just asked me since when I've had this book. I got it for my round birthday in the year 2000. 😜
#readingwithkids
#raisingreaders
#LyricalApril Day 6: #Sail - Walter Moers is nothing short of a genius. I must have laughed out loud like a looney more than I can count while reading this novel. I hunted down all of his books from our library, read them all, and as soon as was able to, ordered as much titles as I could for my own collection.
Another #MarchIntoReading Day 5 Contribution for #HappyReads. If you haven't discovered Walter Moers yet, you seriously are missing out big time. I had to read aloud several passages from this tome of a book to my family during dinner time because it was downright brilliant. Moers is a genius. I've read (and reviewed) practically all of his novels translated into English.