HAPPY FRIDAY!
This week’s Book Beginning and Friday56 choice is…
Continuing with my ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Friday Theme (here’s the 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 Wide Window
(A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 3)
by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
Book Beginnings
Friday56
UK READERS: Check out the series here! (New versions!)
MY FIRST THOUGHTS
What is the mysterious telescope they have in their possession? What has The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations got to do with them?
BOOK BLURB:
Dear reader,
There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution…
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.
In The Wide Window the siblings encounter a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leaches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain and a doll named Pretty Penny.
In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted.
Despite their wretched contents, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ has sold 60 million copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey. And in the future things are poised to get much worse, thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris. You have been warned.
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
The Bad Beginning (The Friday 56 post).
The Reptile Room (last Friday’s Friday56 Post)
The Wide Window (This post)
The Miserable Mill
The Austere Academy
The Ersatz Elevator
The Vile Village
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?’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
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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Excellent review, Sassy! We are on book #6 and enjoying it so far. It’s an interesting series! ♥️
Count Olaf and Captain Sham both sound pretty scary to look at. LOL I plan to sart watching the show. Sounds like zany fun!
My Friday 56 from My Hungry Friend
A series I really need to read!! I added you to the Linky. Happy weekend! x
Thank you so much for being so kind and doing that for me. I am a bit behind this week, catching up with comments and releasing some from spam. I might still do a Friday post yet… but it looks like I’ve still got a lot of comment catching up to do, from my sickly listlessness… sorry! xx
I loved these books! And I’m really liking the show as well – I’m about midway through season 2 now. 🙂
Lauren @ Always Me