Book #193 of 2020: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #2.5) This is a fun little diversion, albeit one wholly unnecessary to the series in which it takes place. The book is structured like an Encyclopedia Brown title, with short mysteries solved by the protagonist but not explained until …
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Book #77 of 2020: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #4) I’ve been somewhat lukewarm on this prequel series, but it goes out on a suitably climactic high note, with most of the action confined to the tight spaces of a speeding train. Lemony Snicket …
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Book #58 of 2020: Shouldn’t You Be in School? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #3) I’ve come around to the idea that this prequel quartet is not really going to add anything meaningful to our understanding of the background for A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I wish it would tell a more …
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Book #36 of 2020: When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #2) Technically an improvement over the first Unfortunate Events prequel, in part because this volume leans more into the clever wordplay and less into the vague allusions to larger plots (although those are definitely still present). I also …
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Book #10 of 2020: Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #1) This first A Series of Unfortunate Events prequel reads much like its parent series, with sly observational humor and a delightfully morose atmosphere alongside oblique hints at mysteries that will likely never be solved. That’s somewhat …
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