the snicketverse is a literary tragedy in itself by just existing, because it's such a complex, three-dimensional story that hides even more stories within it, and yet we're cursed to only ever be able to witness it from the perspective of lemony snicket. and we know for a fact that bitch isn't reliable in the least. like. he just straight up lies sometimes. like that scene from poison for breakfast where he told the reader about a conversation he had, only to reveal that he made it all the fuck up.

it's like looking through a filtered telescope; you know there's something blocking your full view, you're trapped in one specific perspective despite being made painfully aware that it'll never be the full truth.

idk something something the inherent tragedy of a biased and unreliable narrator, etc etc.

—Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

Just One More Page's March Book Photo Challenge

March 1, 2023 - TBR This Month

I saw this pop up on my feed and I'm trying to find smaller ways to participate more in the booklr community. And I knew that I had a lot of books that I had acquired recently, and these are only part of what's on my to-be-read list, but ones that I figured I could read this month. Or, at least, make an attempt at reading. We'll see how far I actually get.

First on my TBR is The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I have read this book before, but this time around it's for the Traveling Book Project being put in by @just0nemorepage and I'm excited for it!

The rest of the list is Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket, The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah, Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling, Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, and Book of Night by Holly Black.

What's your TBR for this month? Do you plan one? Or just get what feels like you'll most read at the moment? I usually do what I feel like I'll read, but I do have a rough idea of books I would like to read.

it is a different kind of communication, this sort of kissing, than language, and although it is very important — practically nobody would be in the world if it were not for kissing — it cannot last forever.

I assume E Snicket spending "some of her early days in a tree" refers to her apprenticeship.

“Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department”

-sign found in a cafe, Greenwood BC

My shipmate, @saranilssonbooks haggled me! I’m caught!

Book stack! Oh god. I am halfway through Melville’s the confidence man, (i might never finish that trip) Pierre (I’ve given up) Kierkegaards’ fear and trembling (god its so good but dude what the hell are you saying right now) David abrams the spell of the sensuous (its bonkers. It’s so good. Yes. I can’t wait to read it but also i have not touched it in a month) poison for breakfast by Lemony Snicket (never read snicket before but ohhhhh i will be doing more in the future. This is how philosophy should be. READABLE. This is one I’m actually reading because it’s so light and airy like a lemon meringue pie. Good) Nietzsche’s uhhh the antichrist (hate it. Shut the hell up you fucking emo pissed off skater boy. Find the beauty in life and touch some grass) Albert Camus’s THE PLAUGE (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RAHHHHH I WRITHE BENEATH HIS PROSE I SINK AND SLITHER, I CRY OUT NOISELESSLY INTO A WORLD WHICH KNOWS THAT GOODNESS MUST NOT BE PRAISED TO THE DETRIMENT OF MAKING US BELEIVE THAT EVIL IS A NATURAL PART OF MAN) yeah and ummm i just started interview with a vampire by Anne rice. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) gorl is horny. I thought i could listen to that glass of rat blood while at work. I was wrong. I got so worked up and was so startled when my boss inturrupted me. I’ll be finishing this within the next week. Hehe sexy evil vampires >:)

Last song: impressions by wild painting. Mmmmmmmm yes

Last film: across the spider verse! I watched it with a complete spider person nerd who paused it every five seconds and told us about the cameos. Good stuff.

Last show: avatar the last air bender live action. Costumes? YES sets? UAAAAH SO GOOD storyline? A FRESH DIFFERENT SIDE OF THE OG! COOL! Acting? …uh. Well. At least they’re not white and everyone’s names are pronounced correctly.

Current obsession: “my boyfriend” i am going to assume is not a valid answer here so i will go with phenomenology (the philosophical discipline) as a whole. My love, the oar with which I strike through the waves of life.

With my harpoon i strike @spaceacebreakface because i dont know anyone else :)

“When you are kissing someone, you feel, perhaps that you will never be alone, but of course, everyone is alone sometimes. It is lonely, sometimes, to be alone, but some people are good at being lonely. I am one of them. I am a loneliness savant, a word which here means that loneliness comes naturally to me, so I am quite good at loneliness, if I do say so myself. I like to think about lonely things, poems and philosophy and sad songs I admire, and places and people I do not know, or will never see again. It is said, in a song I admire, by another associate of mine, that the loneliest people in the whole wide world are the ones you’re never going to see again, and this is the sort of thing I like to think about: lonely, thoughts and lonely language, and lonely things that happened, a long lonely time ago, things that you tell yourself, walking on the gravelly ground under a tree that has been there for a long time, do not matter. Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.”

- Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

Where does the king keep his armies?

Up his sleevies.

L + ratio + wrong side of the schism + you're not a noble person + if you were a musician, you'd move the sheets around + that was dramatic irony + you don't even know what's inside the sugar bowl + you're in the dark, in the dark + not well-read behavior

Reading Lemony Snicket’s “poison for breakfast.” Just at random, you know. He’s still got it.

Nothing will make you look for a mirror and a comb quicker than hearing “Your hair looks nice.”

Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

Poison For Breakfast left me with a list of poems and books and music and people to check out, just the way i like a book to

Plus, it had one of my favorite notes of all time

another revamp 💪💪 unsure if I’ll keep it tbh, really loved the old one but have some new current obsessions to rep