The Penultimate Peril and The End, by Lemony Snicket
Normally I would do two separate posts for two separate books, but then there would be two short and boring posts about these books, and I promised to be more generally awesome this year, so you’re going to get just one slightly longer and hopefully slightly less boring post about these books. Okay, so, the … Read more
The Grim Grotto, by Lemony Snicket
This is the second and last of the Unfortunate Events books Scott and I made it through on our road trip… Scott spent too much time sleeping for us to listen more. That’s right. I’m blaming him. I’m sure he cares. Right, so, this is the one, as I recalled before we started it, that … Read more
The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket
Another road trip, another journey along the sad, sad path of the Baudelaire orphans! I’m not sure why that gets an exclamation mark, but it does. Unfortunately (HA), I had forgotten how frightfully boring this installment is. After the violence and sloppy eating of The Carnivorous Carnival, this trip up a snow-covered mountain is just… … Read more
The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket
The last of the Unfortunate Events this time around. Not sure when we’ll be moving on, but there are only four to go! We will make it! In this adventure, the Baudelaires have hopped in Count Olaf’s trunk after the burning of Heimlich Hospital, figuring that Olaf is good at evading the law and also … Read more
The Hostile Hospital, by Lemony Snicket
The second Unfortunate Event of our road trip! I may have possibly slept through part of this book, but I’ve read it before and Scott caught me up with what I missed, so I think I’m all right. So in this one, the Baudelaires have escaped VFD just barely ahead of the law, hopping on … Read more
The Vile Village, by Lemony Snicket
Hey, look, another road trip happened! You’ll be seeing this and two more Series of Unfortunate Events posts over the next several days. These books are just so perfect for driving — they’re simple, they’re engaging but not so much that you cause an accident, and they are easy to pick up again after you’ve … Read more
The Ersatz Elevator, by Lemony Snicket
I promise this is the last Unfortunate Events post until I go on another road trip. Though that might be pretty soon. You never know. In this one, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are back to regular — well, as regular as you can get in this series — guardians, in this case Jerome and Esmé … Read more
The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket
And now, back to the Baudelaire orphans. In Book the Fifth, here, Mr. Poe just doesn’t even try to find a decent guardian for the orphans and just packs them off to boarding school. And he doesn’t even pick a good boarding school — Klaus’s teacher makes her class measure things all day and Violet’s … Read more
The Miserable Mill, by Lemony Snicket
More unfortunateness! How distressing. So in this, Book the Fourth, Mr. Poe seems to have run out of handy relatives to foist the children on, and so they are sent off to live at a lumber mill. Only, when they show up at the mill they quickly find out that they are meant to work … Read more
The Wide Window, by Lemony Snicket
Scott and I made two fourteen-hour drives last week (to and from Jacksonville), and so I collected as many of the Series of Unfortunate Events audiobooks as I could, which was five. We got through four of them on the trip, so you’ll be hearing a lot about these for the next little while! The … Read more
