La stanza delle serpi

While re-reading this series my main question is why the hell is an incompetent banker the only adult helping these children. Like where are the police or social workers????

Incredibly Deadly SADNESS. The Baudelaire Orphans misfortune continues. After their home burned, their parents died, and they narrowly escaped the evil clutches of uncle Olaf, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are taken to the care of a distant relative, Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, a BRILLIANT herpetologist a

So, Celyn and I cruised on to book 2, pausing only for breath. This book sets a pattern, a formula, that is repeated in each of the books we've read so far. The children move to a new place. All the adults are idiots. Count Olaaf arrives in disguise and at some point a selected member of his theatre t Leggi tutto

I love Uncle Monty. I love Uncle Monty. I love his coconut cake. I love the Incredibly Deadly Viper. I love the movie theater and the popcorn and Zombies in the Snow; I love Monty’s house and his shaped shrubs and his plans to voyage to Peru. I love the Reptile Room (the place) and I love The Reptile Leggi tutto

Libro sencillo, rápido de leer y con una prosa sobresaliente. En realidad 3,5 La habitación de los reptiles continúa naturalmente la desafortunada historia de los huérfanos Baudelaire; historia, que no tiene la misma crueldad del primer tomo pero que seguimos disfrutando por su temática. La historia e Leggi tutto

I love this book a lot more than the first one. I think the first book is just introduction to characters, and this one Violet especially begins to establish herself as a character which I LOVE. Also, this one remains one of the most upsetting. I'm excited to see some of these moments play out in th Leggi tutto

Violet Baudelaire is a revolution in the female character construct. This book is so funny and imaginative and delightfully strange. But let's talk about Violet. What a positively outstanding character. Gentle and kind and funny and intelligent and sensible and feminine and brave. It just doesn't

I really love the creative simplicity of these books. Not only with the language but the locations and the occupations and the divide of good and evil. I love how each character has a single identifiable trait and that’s enough. I just, I’m really happy reading these books. They’re clever and charmi Leggi tutto