Most Recently Read Book:
The Thief Lord
By Cornelia Funke
I just finished listening to The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke in the car today. I love when you don't quite expect books to be all that good, but then they surprise you. Something about the cover intrigued me, but I wasn't really overly excited to start this book. It is a story of a group of orphans who live in Venice. Their leader, the Thief Lord, steals objects that they, in turn, sell to a shopkeeper in order to make money to live off of. Everything seems to be going well until Prosper and Bo's aunt comes looking for them. She hires a detective to track them down. In the meantime, the Thief Lord is commissioned by a strange old man to steal a wooden wing from a woman's house. The wooden wing belongs to a winged-lion from a famous merry-go-round. There are lots of secrets that are revealed along the way. My favorite part was reading about and remembering the streets, bridges, and canals of Venice. Overall, two thumbs up.
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