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Since Inkling came from Dad’s sketchbook, he has a special connection with Dad’s thoughts and feelings and can see his dreams, which he draws for Ethan. Inkling starts to help Ethan heal and Ethan pours out his feelings, but he also helps Ethan see things from his Dad’s point of view. H e can transform into anything and so he helps Ethan learn to draw, he amuses Sarah as a puppy, he helps Ethan’s dad overcome writers’ block. Inkling is a blob of ink that drags itself from Ethan’s fathers’ sketchbook and becomes Ethan’s new best friend and the bright spot in Ethan’s life. So, he’s got that pressure, he’s got an absentee dad who is dealing with the loss of his wife, and he’s dealing with the loss of his mother while caring for his younger sister Sarah who has Down’s Syndrome.
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Everyone thinks since his dad is a great artist, he should be too. Ethan lives in his father’s shadow, especially as he’s in the middle of a graphic novel project at school. Why I Finished It: This was one of the best books I’ve read in a long time! It was outside of my reading comfort zone, but it was such a clever, original story that I couldn’t put it down!Įthan’s father is an artist who draws graphic novels, but has hit a bit of writer’s block since his wife died. It’s rare that a single book appeals to both of us, let alone multiple books by the same author, but we discovered that we both had Inkling in our “to read” stacks as well! Why I Picked It Up: I was drawn to the cover initially, but then I noticed the author! Jessica and I both loved Oppel’s novel This Dark Endeavor about Victor Frankenstein before he became Dr.