Tag Archives: Children-YA

Lemony Snicket: the Unauthorized Autobiography© 2002 Daniel Handler213 pages (containing “an overall feeling of doom”, according to the index.) As the official representative of Lemony Snicket in all legal, literary, and social matters, I am often asked difficult questions, even when I … Continue reading →

The End © 2006 Lemony Snicket 324 pages The End of the Series of Unfortunate Events begins on the open ocean, with the Baudelaires and Count Olaf in the same boat — having escaped a burning hotel and an angry … Continue reading →

The Penultimate Peril © 2005 Lemony Snicket 353 pages As its name suggests, we are nearing The End. Following clues left for them by VFD members, the children arrive back where the series began — at Briny Beach, where Sunny … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

The Ersatz Elevator © 2001 Lemony Snicket 259 pages “I know what you mean,” Klaus said. “If someone had asked me, that day at the beach, if I ever thought we’d be climbing up and down an empty elevator in … Continue reading →