Book Review: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

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This will be more of a collection of quotes I liked than a proper review. 
I love 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'. All the books follow more or less the same pattern and they are very easy and quick to read. These characteristics do not make the books less enjoyable. It is so nice to re-read books from your childhood and notice all the little things I didn't notice the first time or was too young to understand. 
I've always had a particular liking for this one, I don't exactly know why. I believe it might be because of the small murder mystery it presents and its lovely twist. 
Here are some quotes that I really enjoyed:
• "Their adventure would be exciting and memorable like being chased by a werewolf through a field of thorny bushes at midnight with nobody around to help you."
• You can see at once why keeping things in perspective rarely works very well, because it is hard to concentrate on somebody being eaten by a bear when you are staring at your own ugly pimple."
• If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats."
• "Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it."

Rating: 4/5

Book Review: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

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These books are such fun reads! I'm having a great time re-reading them all. It is great to be able to go back to them after so many years, and to notice things I didn't when I was reading them for the first time. Besides, I never got to finish the series. So, this will be a good opportunity to revisit the books I have already read and read the ones I haven't.

I didn't notice, during my first reading of this book, how incredibly smart and terribly disturbing it is. And how it goes from one terribly disturbing moment, such as Count Olaf rubbing a bade 'gently against Violet's knee', to a funny moment, like the Baudelairs using the famous 'If only he knew we knew that he knows' sentence.  

Now, on to the next book!

Some of my favorite quotes:

"There is a pair of snakes who have learn to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize."

"This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snugly in bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there."

'"Ackroid!" Sunny said, which probably meant something like 'Roger!'"

"If, however, you were looking for anything in a haystack, that wouldn't be difficult at all, because once you started sifting through the haystack you would most certainly find something: hay, of course, but also dirt, bugs, a few farming tools, and maybe a man who had escaped from prison and has been hiding there".

Rating: 4/5