![]() ![]() “Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why,” young Lemony concludes. His apprenticeship begins when he climbs out the window of a tea-shop bathroom and only gets stranger from there. His jokes work on many levels, but he’s not afraid to be thoughtful, too. In Who Could That Be at This Hour, Lemony Snicket is a thirteen-year-old boy, fresh from an unusual education at the hands of a secret organization that readers of A Series of Unfortunate Events will recognize. The humor is what we have come to expect: equal parts wit and absurdity. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” I’ll ever encounter. Lemony takes a break in the library to “read about someone who was a true friend and a good writer who lived on a bloodthirsty farm where nearly everyone was in danger of some sort.” That’s probably the best summary of E.B. In this title, allusions to children’s literary classics are scattered throughout. ![]() The husband-and-wife police team bumbles Lemony’s chaperone is useless and as for his parents, “They’re helpless.” “The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands,” Lemony concludes.Īs in “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Snicket challenges even as he entertains. The adults are inept and/or their honesty dubious. ![]() Lemony and the other young characters (save for the bully) are the heroes here. ![]()
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