Mission: READ

Good Mooooorning, Chargers, and welcome to Mrs. Glatt’s Mission:READ, a blog about books!

I thought this would be a great way to share all the new books I’m reading and to hear from you as well.  In fact, the first CJHS student (use only your first name and team) to post a comment wins a Charger’s Choice award and a KING-SIZE Snickers bar!

Now, on to our first book EVER: The Penultimate Peril, book 12 in the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. 

Just to let you know, I absolutely LOVE these books.  I wait for them to come out just like a Harry Potter book–no kidding.  But I don’t read them…. Instead, I listen to them on CD because the reader, Tim Curry, just makes the book come alive (a phrase which here means, makes you feel like you are in the book and Count Olaf is after you instead of after three unfortunate orphans).  Tim Curry’s Count Olaf is way better than Jim Carrey’s. Even though I am only part of the way through this book, I am enjoying it a ton.  The Baudelaire Orphans are disguised as concierges working at the Hotel Denouement and trying to get ready for a big VFD meeting. The hotel’s floors, guests, and, well, everything, is arranged by the Dewey Decimal system.  For example, the educational convention guests are housed in Room 371.  So right now there are lots of inside jokes for librarians (betcha didn’t think those existed). There also lots and lots and even more lots of references to the other 11 books in the series, so you can’t just start reading this one. This book is the penultimate book (a word which here, and everywhere, means next to last.) So there will be a thirteenth book maybe…click here to read what Lemony Snicket says about when the thirteenth (and last) book will hit the shelves.  

Want to know more?  Then check it out, and read it yourself! CJHS IMC owns two copies of The Penultimate Peril and one audiobook on CD (when I finish and return it). 

Mission: Accomplished