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Tim Curry is back for the narration of this one! I was so happy 😁
Another bleak installment of the Baudelaire's trials against Count Olaf as they are desperate to find their Quagmire friends
#SeriesLove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

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My April #bookspin was a “Mood Pick” - and I decided to return to the misadventures of the Baudelaire children.

Five down and eight to go! 💖💖💖

Was the series that really got me into reading as a kid

I liked it

4.4.20: The misfortune may continue but we‘re getting closer to solving the mysteries. I think there is a happy ending at the very end of this journey.

2.19.20: Starting book six before bedtime

if we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

- Lemony Snicket

Road trip = family audiobook. We continued with the Lemony Snicket series. The Baudelaires go to live with the Squalors who are obsessed with what is in and what is out. Some more tidbits about Olaf and the Baudelaire parents are revealed and Sunny uses her toothy talent. Plus a good red herring joke. Not my fave in the series but ready to find out more...on to the Vile Village. #middlegrade #midseries

Yes! Lemony Snicket has done it again!

I love these misadventures, and the Ersatz Elevator does NOT disappoint.

The orphans are adopted by a wealthy couple living in the penthouse, above many, many stairs... which must be taken due to a broken elevator. I loved how things that were “in” went “out” so quickly!

Of course, we know Count Olaf is still always lurking.

Book 36 of the year, finished May 4, audio

This really highlights how the narrator can make or break an audio book. I was wondering if I was going to be able to finish the series and now that it's back to Tim Curry it's enjoyable again.

As for the book: the kids have a new set of terrible guardians, find the two Quagmire Triplets, and loose them again to Olaf in disguise. Poe is still hopeless and the mysteries of the V.F.D. and Beatrice deepen.

My current read

Lemony Snicket taught me a new word. I did not know the meaning of "ersatz" before reading this! This is might be my favorite of the series. I love little Sunny in her pinstriped suit! #middlegrade

If they say "Oh!" for instance, the exclamation point would indicate that the person is saying "Oh!" in an excited way, rather than simply saying "Oh," with a comma after it, which would indicate that the present is somewhat disappointing.
"Oh," Violet said, as she opened her present.
"Oh," Klaus said, as he opened his.
"Oh," Sunny said, as she tore open her shopping bag with her teeth.”

#punctuation #QuotsySept18

If we wait until we‘re ready, we‘ll be waiting for the rest of our lives

Need this today. ❤️❤️

And the plot thickens... This feels like when the books stop being independent stories and start to be linked narrative. A nice reread with the second season of the Netflix series out, even though Daniel Handler has turned out to be a trash human.

Watching the new season of Series of Unfortunate Events and so far it‘s great!!

Book 6 📚
A book with alliteration in the title
6/40 #popsugarchallenge
20/100 #goodreadsreadingchallenge2018

“The table of #elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.” #QuotsyJan18

I‘m traveling. That‘s what I‘ve decided. If I wait forever, I‘ll never do it. Baby steps this year with a trip to GenCon. #waiting #Quotsy #QuotsyJan18 #LitsyQuoteChallenge

From a series of books I enjoyed reading to my kids. #waiting #quotsyjan18 @TK-421

Life ain't so bad sometimes.

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3 stars

Nothing like a good book with some hot chocolate.

Oh my. Tim Curry is a fabulous audio narrator for this series. In this one, he has to say "red herring" several times and it is giving me CLUE flashbacks.

The word "nervous" means "worried about something" --you might feel nervous, for instance, if you were served prune ice cream for dessert, because you would be worried that it would taste awful. whereas the word "anxious" means "troubled by disturbing suspense," which you might feel if you were served a live alligator for dessert, because you would be troubled by the disturbing suspense about whether you would eat your dessert or it would eat you.

This was probably my favorite book in the series so far, even though it leaves us with the same mystery as the previous book. I love the character development of the Baudelaires: they're getting braver with every single book, and Sunny learns to talk a little better, which makes for some really funny word puns. The caretakers in this one were as delightfully frustrating as in the other books, but Jerome was fairly nice.

I had a pattern is enjoying the odd-numbered books more than three even-numbered ones but I actually got really into this one. Though Mr Poe is getting

4/5 stars.

I was ready to return to this series and now that the mystery has started to kick in, i think I'll get through post through a few of them. I was hitting a bit of a reading slump but i think weird, dryly humorous children's fiction was what I needed.

Count Olaf covers every single aspect of a #scrooge he even has the total look! #miser #miserable #muchlove #pennypincher #fortuneythief #nphfan #characters2017
@LibrarianRyan

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Even though this series makes me laugh at some of the absurd things the 3 children do, I am thoroughly enjoying it. I feel myself getting so wound up at the things that keep going wrong for the children which just proves to me how good the author is. He has me hooked. Cannot wait to see where the story goes next x

I honestly hope that by the time I make it to the 13th book I'll be tired of reading these. I am addicted and blowing through this series (a thing I haven't done since my early years in college). Thank goodness i have seven more on my #tbr

Flying through this series now, AND have started watching the Netflix adaptation which is superb so far!

REREAD : 4⭐ I admit I forgot where Esme came from and how she became part of the story; there are so many details I have forgotten about since I last read the series. It's so frustrating I'm struggling to remember how it ends ! 😬🐟👔👛👓🍸🏨🔧🏺📗📓👁

thanks to @Graciouswarriorprincess for my new bookmark treats and to @LazyOwl for organizing the swap! making my way through a series of old childhood favorites...

For me, this book felt like filler. It's a transistion between the orphans just trying to get away from Olaf arc and the introduction into the search for the Quagmire triplets and the answers they hold. It felt really slow at points and at times it was easy to tune out and barely follow along. As for the guardians, Esmé irks me and Jerome disappoints me. I don't even understand how they are a couple.

This was my favorite of the series so far aside from The Bad Beginning, which will always have a special place in my heart. I enjoyed the antics and Tim Curry's narration. Best of all, the ending was fantastic and unexpected (aside from the fact that it was chapter 13)! I can't wait to see this one in live action! 💛💛💛

I'm still really enjoying this series. Also, the inept adults are my favorite part and I didn't really realize that until Jerome Squalor and his fear of conflict...as silly and ridiculous as these books are they are teaching a good message about hanging tight to scepticism and the perils of just being nice.

A word I was not not expecting to see in a book classified as "juvenile fiction" but I'm totally fine with it. More people need to know what this word means. #litsyatoz #lettere

Esmé Gigi Geniveve Squalor. E.G.G.S. Eggs...EGGS!! 😂😂😂🍳🍳🍳

For my #favevillain , I'm going to go with Count Olaf. Partially because I am currently reading these books for (mostly) the first time, but also because he is just so... Olaf. He's absurd and ridiculous and I think that NPH plays him perfectly in the new Netflix series! I am always amused by his antics (even though they're nefarious) and I am usually dashing to the finish to find out what he'll think of next! #RiotGrams

Was listening to this beauty on my commute to and from clinic today and I had several thoughts.
1. Tim Curry is just amazing.
2. The music they had done for these is super interesting.
3. Lemony Snicket may, in fact, be my favorite dry humor writer. I may be more interested in the asides than the actual story.
4. Why am I only just now, 6 books in, starting to question the absurdity of tasks completed by a one year old?

Things that went over my head when I was younger and read these books for the first time.