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Category Archives: Reviews
The Grim Grotto
The Grim Grotto © 2004 Lemony Snicket 323 pages I continue the Series of Unfortunate Events. By this point in the series, the format has completely changed. The Baudelaire orphans are no longer being protected by the system and ushered … Continue reading
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The Slippery Slope
The Slippery Slope © 2003 Lemony Snicket 337 pages The last book ended with the Baudelaire orphans not in a quiet place where they could reflect on their fate, but in a perilous place that threatened death within the span … Continue reading
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The Carnivorous Carnival
The Carnivorous Carnival © 2003 Lemony Snicket 286 pages Although for the first six books the Baudelaire orphans were bounced from one psychotic or useless guardian to the next, they had a sense of stability in that they knew Mr. … Continue reading
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This Week At the Library (29/7)
Books this Update: The Vile Village and The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket Syrup, Max(x) Barry Finding Your Religion, Scotty McLennan Reclaiming Virtue, Ray Bradshaw I started the week off by continuing in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events. While I … Continue reading
Reclaiming Virtue
Reclaiming Virtue: How We can Develop the Moral Intelligence to do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason © 2009 Ray Bradshaw 528 pages When I checked this out, I expected a rational defense of morality. … Continue reading
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Finding Your Religion
Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up with Has Lost its Meaning © 1999 Scotty McLennan 242 pages I didn’t go into the library to find this book — I pulled it off the shelf on a whim, … Continue reading
The Hostile Hospital
The Hostile Hospital © 2001 Lemony Snicket 255 pages The Hostile Hospital represents a dramatic break in the series’ pattern: rather than Mr. Poe delivering the children to yet another guardian who will either die, denounce the children, or attempt … Continue reading
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The Vile Village
The Vile Village © 2001 Lemony Snicket 256 pages “It takes a village to raise a child”, the saying goes — and the vile village of VFD takes that saying seriously when they join a government program that allows whole … Continue reading
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This Week at the Library (23/7)
Books this Update: Lemony Snicket’s The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, and The Ersatz Elevator Company, Max Barry The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis Drawing Down the Moon, Margaret Adler Ricochet, Sandra Brown For future reference, I decided a few weeks … Continue reading
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