Best known for his 13-volume Series of Unfortunate Events series, Lemony Snicket wrote this introspecting yet witty and delightful book with an abundance of sharp intelligence.
Seriously, it's Lemony Snicket, what else can you say besides that he's AWESOME?
Started of with introducing an inquisitive farm woman who went on a journey to look for a wise man, only to find out she had misheard WIDE man(and actually given the cut direct by him at his doorstep), had the most unfruitful journey.
To make things worse, her husband decided to marry her unpleasant 3rd grade teacher. Inquisitive Farm Woman sat dejectedly and ponders about the worth of life.
My favourite quotes in this book:
Morning is an important time of the day,
because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you're going to have.
For instance, you wake up to the sound of twittering birds,
and find yourself in an enormous canopy bed,
with a butler standing next to you holding a breakfast of freshly made muffins and hand-squeezed orange juice on a silver tray,
you will know that your day will be a splendid one.
If you wake up to the sound of church bells, and find yourself in a fairly big regular bed,
with a butler standing next to you, holding a breakfast of hot tea and a toast on a plate,
you will know that your day will be O.K.
And if you wake up to the sound of somebody banging two metal pots together, you find yourself in a small bunk bed, with a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all, you will know that your day would be horrid.
pg.132
~*~
The thing you hope will never happen to you
might just happen to someone else instead,
who has been spending their lives
dreading the thing that will
happen to you.
pg.149
~*~
Waiting is
one of life's
hardships.
pg. 154
Definitely have this book in your collection. Remember when I said I actually prefer collecting books rather than actually reading them? Well, this is one of the few lucky books that got me absorbed.
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