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Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

Gary

This book begins very simply with Lemony Snicket finding a note pushed under his door. The note reads: “You had poison for breakfast”. How strange! (And alarming.) Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever had a note pushed under your door that reads something like that? No? Me neither! And it’s also never happened to Mr. Snicket before and he’s a little concerned about it, and he now has to investigate his own impending death before he runs out of time and the poison does its business. 

Aside from the riddle of who poisoned him and why, the story is (the book tells us) also about bewilderment, and about life’s big questions (whatever they are). I must admit that I really enjoyed this author’s previous series of books, All the Wrong Questions, and while I didn’t enjoy this book as much, I do like Lemony Snicket’s funny way of seeing the world and his silly meandering style. No one else writes quite like him. So, if you enjoyed his A Series of Unfortunate Events books, give this one a try, and find out for yourself who poisoned Lemony Snicket and why!

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