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Update

Just wanted to let anyone reading this blog know why I haven't been posting any reviews lately. My Mom has been having some health problems. Nothing life threatening, but lots of pain and an ER visit have made me pretty distracted and not really feeling up to posting. But as soon as things start clearing up and getting better, I'll be posting reviews again. Though with all the working I'm doing it may be a bit more sporadic than I'd like. To anyone kind enough to frequent this blog: thanks for your understanding.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Still reading Harry Potter (it sure is harder to whip through the series when you have to work 5 days a week, I’ll tell ya that) with absolute glee. Another excerpt from the Weasley Files of Past Reviews - I thought I better tell anyone that does not know, that A Series of Unfortunate Events ROCKS! I’m talking Book One to Book Thirteen. It's hilarious in its ludicrousness. There’s a truly interesting mystery involving the letters VFD that links the books, there’s the fact that despite how crazy and insanely funny the plots are you still truly care about the Baudelaire orphans. Wait. Maybe I need to summarize the plot for those of you who have never heard of the books (where have you been, may I ask?) or don't know what they're about. Three siblings: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, are at the beach one day when they get the horrifying news that their parents have died in a fire that has engulfed and destroyed their entire home. They get shipped off to their new guardian