A Bouquet of Alarming AphorismsHorseradish - Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Lemony Snicket
Harper Collins
Daniel Handler strikes again! Horseradish - Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid is a collection of oddly funny, yet slightly depressing aphorisms from the author of the Series of Unfortunate Events. Reading it started me to wonder ... why is it that the bookstore, which is most definitely my "happy place", the source of such angst, sadness and depression in my imaginative life?
I mean, really, just look at the books I have reviewed in the past few months. Why don't people want to write, read and/or publish happy stories? Or is it just me and I am drawn to books with heavy themes like death, war, pestilence and strife? I have liked, if not loved, quite a number of the novels that I have read since starting this blog and I would like to know what, exactly, this says about me. Maybe I should be worried ... Sigh.
Okay, so back to Handler for a moment. His little book of wit and wisdom is divided into thirteen (noticing a trend?) chapters. In each, he offers up a few "kernels of dread" that can inspire or deflate -- depending on the mood of the reader. I will leave you with my favourite and the one that I think, perhaps, is the most true.
It is one of life's bitterest
truths that bedtime so often
arrives just when things are
really getting interesting.
2 comments:
Just curious, is the book aimed at kids? Or is he writing adult books as Snicket now?
I'm not sure. I found it in the kids section when I was picking up a Snicket book for a friend's son. It reads a lot like the rest of the Snicket books and is suitable for kids big and small.
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