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| What Are You Reading Now? : Book Roots! How we come to have the books we read! | | 83 | bell7, August 12 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Message Board | | 210 | injenyworld27, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Nov 2006 | | 99 | MrsLee, December 2006 |
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... to cushion the distress I felt when I finished this most recent book, I read a children's book by Lemony Snicket called The Bad Beginning. Done with that. Good story, quick read. Poor children.
Now I'm on to Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimens ... 40) Lemony Snicket - The Bad Beginning: This was a random BookMooch the other day. The first of A Series of Unfortunate Events by "Lemony Snicket" (obviously, I knew that this was an invented author, but I only found out yesterday that they're acutally written by Daniel Handler, who ... ... he's always a quick read, and I've been collecting all his books and stacking them up trying to get to them as I can.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - One I found on my shelf at home, not sure why I have it, probably a gift, but I've heard they are interesting books (have ... ... vies)
Loverboy - finished July 4 (Books into Movies)
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - finished July 5 (James Patterson)
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - finished July 5 (YA/Children)
Currently working on:
The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration
The Mysteries of ... ... weekend.
Cavedweller - finished July 2
Loverboy - finished July 4
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - finished July 5
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - finished July 5
Currently working on:
The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration
The Mysteries of Udolpho
On ... 3- Here's a couple, Maren.
From The Bad Beginning:
To Beatrice-
darling, dearest, dead.
And from The Reptile Room:
For Beatrice-
My love for you shall live forever.
You, however, did not. ... love story of Suzanne, Matt and Nicholas, and the tragedy that came over all characters. Definitely a tear jerker.
#31. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (162 pages)
Why I Chose It: It was on the shelf and it was short
A children's story, about three kids whose parents ... ... (and in need of some less-serious, although not necessarily happy reading), that I am now downloading the e-book of The Bad Beginning.
Yes, I am sitting in the local public library, with my laptop connected to their wi-fi, exchanging comments online with strangers* all over the world, ... Going from oldest to newest read:
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket: This is a reread-- I can't remember exactly how I found out about A Series of Unfortunate Events, but it was probably from staring at a shelf at a bookstore and trying to find something new to read.
Interworld by Ne ... I just started The Reptile Room, book 2 in A Series of Unfortunate Events. I read The Bad Beginning long ago and liked it, and I really thought the movie was well done. The kids did a great job and Jim Carey was perfect as Count Olaf. Children's books count as half, I'm thinking.
12a. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
12b. Meet Addy by Connie Porter Some words taken from A Series of Unfortunate Events:
Austere
Carnivorous
Penultimate ... can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they are capable of."
I Am the Messenger
And hundreds of random quotes from A Series of Unfortunate Events ... Miller, Sudden Sea by R. A. Scotti, and Running for the Hills by Horatio Clare.
Then to the library to get the Bad Book and The Cute Book by Aranzi Aronzo and Contemporary Celtic Motifs by Alex Sherman. I read The bad beginning to my daughter, and we both liked it. It is refreshingly different from most of the kids books I/we've come across. There isn't too much dark comedy for children, I guess.
It is interesting to see, however, what happens later, and is that what I now find refreshing ... ... -- about the only useful thing I did, really. Grump, grump, grumble.
#211 -- The Somnambulist is reminding me of the Series of Unfortunate Events, except for adults, if that makes sense. So far, we have a narrator who seems to be somehow involved in the story, but that involvement has ... ... The Somnambulist. I really like it so far. Something in the writing style makes me think that it's a little like the Series of Unfortunate Events for adults -- quirky, sometimes freakish characters, a narrator who seems close to the story but not quite in the story (at least, at the point ... 13. A series of unfortunate events: the bad beginning by Lemony Snicket ... parrallel universe where everyone has daemons that stay with them. I liked this far better than the rest of the series.
Bad Beginning read it, liked it, but never was inspired enough to read any more in the series. Bad things happen to three kids, but it is done kind of tongue and cheek. The ... These are books I own but haven't read, even though I really want to.
21. The Golden Compass
23. The Bad Beginning (I started to read it with my aunt a few years ago but didn't finish)
24. Twilight
34. The Reptile Room (also, the rest of the series)
52. Animal Farm ... hope that some actual relationships form in the subsequent books, because this trend was starting to drive me nuts.
19. The Bad Beginning, or, Orphans! (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
I knew that these books were actually pretty dark for kid's books, but even knowing ... ... Varjak Paw by SF Said
5. Hirvi by Sari Peltoniemi (Finnish only)
6. Ankea alku or The Bad Beginning - (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
7. Viisikko jälleen yhdessä, (Five are Together Again) by Enid Blyton
...
Authors New to Me: FINISHED GROUP
1. Can You Keep a Secret - Sophie Kinsella FINISHED 1/15
2. Fi ... ... Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Novels of Tiger and Del Volume 1 by Jennifer Roberson
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
B ... ...
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Also:
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (and sequels)
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (and sequels)
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket ... up The Miserable Mill shortly. These books have been really hit-or-miss for me. I wasn't impressed with the first one (The Bad Beginning), I really liked the second one (The Reptile Room), and the third one (The Wide Window) was ok.
These books are the anti-Harry Potter, in that ... ... is my daughter's.
However
Books such as Diane Duane's Young Wizards Series, and the stuff by Tamora Pierce, Series of Unfortunate Events, Alex Rider Series, Artemis Fowl Series, all of Cornelia Funke's stuff, Harry Potter, et cetera - they are all mine. (And I refuse ... ... Chronicles and accompanying books such as Arthur Spiderwick's Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, as well as the Series of Unfortunate Events.
I like pretty books. ^__^ (43) Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Review
(44) The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
Review ... by Harper Lee
52. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
53. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
54. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the First: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
55. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Second: The Reptile Room by Lemony ... ... of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
6. The Incredible Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
7. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
8. Changing Faces by Kimberla Roby
9. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
10. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk K ... ... er
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman
Talking in Bed by Antonya Nelson
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters ... ... oth
Talking in Bed by Antonya Nelson
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
Flesh and blood by Jonathan Kellerman
The bad beginning by Lemony Snicket Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
The Uninvited by Dorothy MacArdle
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
From the Lands of Figs and Olives : over 300 delicious and unusual Recipes from ... ... that hit Philadelphia in 1793. My daughter read and loved it, as did several of her historically minded friends.
The Bad Beginning and the other twelve books in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were have been big hits with the fifth graders I know. The orphaned Baudelaire children ... ... Moore
29. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
30. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
31. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
32. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
33. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa Se ... How about Lemony Snicket's 'Series of Unfortunate Events' ? The Bad Beginning is the first book in that series. ... . My personal dislikes are Maureen McCarthy' s Ganglands which is one I never finished. I understand people disliking the Series of Unforunate Events as I have only read the first three and felt it was basically a money making scheme for Mr. "Snicket" - same characters, same plot but only the ... I also thought Coraline was a good audio. He might enjoyThe Series of Unfortunate Events on audio. I enjoyed Thief Lord and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke. I've only read The Bad Beginning, and it certainly didn't inspire me to read more. The constant vocabulary lessons were extremely tedious. So Harry Potter wins easily. ... strong contender for my top 5 of the year. Started listening to the Series of Unfortunate Events books, starting right at A Bad Beginning.
Also finished Five Quarters of the Orange, and while I can appreciate that it was well-written, I just didn't care for it at all. Planning on going ... I'm in the midst of The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. The End just came in for me at the library, so I want to quickly reread the rest of the series so I'm prepared. ... else is acquiring such lofty, intelligent books. Today I bought The Halfling's Gem by R.A. Salvatore and borrowed The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room, (both by Lemony Snicket), from the library. Let's see... Finished off A Bad Beginning the other day. Just finished A kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton yesterday.
Started on apocalypse troll by david weber this afternoon.
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