HAPPY FRIDAY!
Well, we’re certainly moving forward with UNFORTUNATE FRIDAY with this week’s Book Beginning and Friday56 choice…
Continuing with my ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Friday Theme (here’s last Friday’s post) I am now on to the next book in the series…
Why? I received the lovely book The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations by Joe Tracz (book pictured above) to review and realised I just had to watch the Netflix TV series, which I am now doing, at the same time as reading all the books!
So without further ado… I present… 
The Hostile Hospital
(A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 8)
by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
UK READERS: Check out the series here! (New versions!)
My First Thoughts?
It’s the unneccessary surgery which freaked me out! lol
Hospitals are never fun, so when the Baudelaire children get wrapped up in such an unfortunate and hostile hospital they already have my full sympathy! This book is going to be no fun!
Well, not for the Baudelaire children anyway.
In fact, I’m feeling a bit of a sadist knowing I’ll enjoy every minute of their unfortunate story…
Dear Reader,
You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages.
I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats. It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children’s lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead.
In The Hostile Hospital the siblings face a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about a fire.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? Yep, I am going to bore you share my Lemony Snicket love and devotion — ten more times! You lucky things, you! If you don’t want to read them all by then, well, I give up! lol
Book 1 – The Bad Beginning (The Friday 56 post).
Book 2 – The Reptile Room (last Friday’s Friday56 Post)
Book 3 – The Wide Window (last Friday56 post)
Book 4 – The Miserable Mill (last Friday’s Friday56 post)
Book 5 – The Austere Academy (My Friday’s Friday56 post)
Book 6 – The Ersatz Elevator (My Friday56 post)
The Vile Village (My Friday56 Post)
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
The Penultimate Peril
The End
And what about All the Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous and puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about:
‘Who Could That Be at This Hour?’
‘When Did you Last See Her?’
‘Shouldn’t You Be in School?’
‘Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?’
Lemony Snicket was born before you were and is likely to die before you as well. He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious and prone to riot. He grew up near the sea and currently lives beneath it. Until recently, he was living somewhere else.
Brett Helquist was born in Ganado, Arizona, grew up in Orem, Utah, and now lives in New York City. He earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University and has been illustrating ever since. His art has appeared in many publications, including Cricket magazine and The New York Times.
HAVE YOU READ THIS SERIES?
I can’t wait to visit your blogs to find out. Have a great weekend, may your books be with you!
Luv Sassy X
🙂
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I am gonna buy the first book in the series today. 🙂 Happy weekend! x
yay! My work is done! lol xxx
You certainly ARE making progress on the series. I haven’t been following along. Is this your first time through the series or is it a reread for you? http://lisaksbookthoughts.blogspot.com/2019/04/its-cozy-food-friday-that-means-its.html
Woops I gave you another blogger’s link. Here is mine: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-and-quotes-walk.html
You are moving right along with the series. I do plan to binge the show and maybe I’ll find time to read the books too.
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These books are awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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