Reader Series: 'The Wide Window,' Lemony Snicket
This is the third post in a series leading up to the premiere of Netflix's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' on January 13, 2017. The series will cover each of the 13 books and 'Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.' Be warned: there are spoilers ahead. Again, the Baudelaires must relocate to the home of a new guardian, an Aunt Josephine. Aunt Josephine is in love with grammar and afraid of everything else, perhaps proving the mind-altering theory of solitary confinement. Her husband, Ike, was eaten by leeches in the lake, which is overlooked by Aunt Josephine's house literally on a cliff. Count Olaf pursues the Baudelaires yet again and the siblings display their incredible sense of ingenuity in the face of adults' willing ignorance. The Wide Window discusses themes and motifs like irrational fear, trauma, allergies, bad disguises, code-breaking, and how you shouldn't eat before traveling on a lake filled with leeches. Snicket suggest...