So recently I was bored and picked up a random book off my shelf, it was the Death Cloud by Andrew Lane. I read it, and I loved it. But that’s beside the point. I found a lot of connections between this book and ATWQ. I only say ATWQ because Death Cloud was published in 2010, ASOUE was published in 1999(I didn’t realize how close the ASOUE books were published(TWW was published in February of 2000, and TMM was published in April of 2000, giving him less than two months to write and publish a book)) And ATWQ was published after Death Cloud in 2012. Let me just give you a summary of Death Cloud: A young Sherlock Holmes has to go live with his aunt and uncle. He gets into all sorts of trouble but in the end, everything turns out to be fine.(It’s a very good book and I do recommend you reading it.) But anyways, Lemony Snicket is just a reincarnated version of Sherlock. Moxie has the best friend, comes to save the day vibe like Matty, but Jake has the personality of Matty. And then Ellington is just like Virginia Crowe, both have the damsel in distress vibes, but Virginia is not evil like Ellington. And both Sherlock and Snicket have to go live in a new place that they don’t like. Amyus Crowe is like the chaperone(kind of) of Sherlock, just how Markson is to Snicket. But Sherlock’s aunt and uncle are the bad guardian type characters, just like Markson. And then both the Baron and Hangfire like to work in the shadows. I realized that Sherlock doesn’t like to talk about his sister, same way Snicket doesn’t mention Kit that often. And there are a lot of fires in the book(that’s more relating to ASOUE) I could go on and on, but I’m not going to. I do recommend reading the book, it is very good.
PS…I will get to the smoothie and side dish thing soon. I’ve been out of town the past month, but I will be coming back soon. The second I get home, I will try to do.