Many are the accomplishments of the lonely
So after a week and a half of forlorn roommatelessness, here are my most current additions:
58. The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket
59. The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket
60. The End, Lemony Snicket
As promised, some thoughts on the ending of A Series of Unfortunate Events: not worth all the hype, but since he said to expect a miserable ending can I really complain that it wasn't miserable in exactly the way I would have liked? I was ready for unsatisfying but not unsatisfyingly unsatisfying, which I guess means he was successful after all . . . it starts to get all meta the more I think about it. Kids books are so not for kids.
61. The Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer
62. The Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
63. The Opal Deception, Eoin Colfer
Yes, those would be #2-4 of the Artemis Fowl Series. The first was by far the best (re-read it earlier this year; #44 on the list), but my OCD won't let me stop til I've gotten to them all.
64. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Gideon Defoe
Got this as the 3rd in a 3-for-2 'deal' (read: scam) at Borders -- I am such a sucker for those! Clueless Pirate Captain teams up with even more clueless Charles Darwin and a Chimp-man-zee. Sarcasm at its best.
65. Ein Mann Zuviel, Felix & Theo [tr: One Man Too Many]
This one was Rebecca's, leftover from a college German class -- a sorely contrived story about Herr Hoffinger, who unwittingly takes a photograph of a heroin deal going down, and a PrivatDetektiv and his Sekretarin who help bring everyone to justice. Not exactly hoch Literatur, but hey, it was in German and it totally counts!
66. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab
Hats off to anyone who can make fun of Moby Dick (one of the world's most odious tomes) and make reference to both Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" as well as The Breakfast Club (ah, Molly Ringwald), not to mention write a sequel of undeclining quality, all in one book.
58. The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket
59. The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket
60. The End, Lemony Snicket
As promised, some thoughts on the ending of A Series of Unfortunate Events: not worth all the hype, but since he said to expect a miserable ending can I really complain that it wasn't miserable in exactly the way I would have liked? I was ready for unsatisfying but not unsatisfyingly unsatisfying, which I guess means he was successful after all . . . it starts to get all meta the more I think about it. Kids books are so not for kids.
61. The Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer
62. The Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
63. The Opal Deception, Eoin Colfer
Yes, those would be #2-4 of the Artemis Fowl Series. The first was by far the best (re-read it earlier this year; #44 on the list), but my OCD won't let me stop til I've gotten to them all.
64. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Gideon Defoe
Got this as the 3rd in a 3-for-2 'deal' (read: scam) at Borders -- I am such a sucker for those! Clueless Pirate Captain teams up with even more clueless Charles Darwin and a Chimp-man-zee. Sarcasm at its best.
65. Ein Mann Zuviel, Felix & Theo [tr: One Man Too Many]
This one was Rebecca's, leftover from a college German class -- a sorely contrived story about Herr Hoffinger, who unwittingly takes a photograph of a heroin deal going down, and a PrivatDetektiv and his Sekretarin who help bring everyone to justice. Not exactly hoch Literatur, but hey, it was in German and it totally counts!
66. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab
Hats off to anyone who can make fun of Moby Dick (one of the world's most odious tomes) and make reference to both Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" as well as The Breakfast Club (ah, Molly Ringwald), not to mention write a sequel of undeclining quality, all in one book.
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