The series of unfortunate events #10 The slippery slope

by

Lemony Snicket

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This wonderful book is about three orphans whose parents died in a fire done by the evil Count Olaf. He tries to get his hands on the Baudelaires rich fortune inherited from their parents. They keep getting sent to guardians their parents friends with, but Count Olaf murders them all one at a time, until he kidnapps the orphans. Count Olaf finds them annoying when they are the ones who are well-behaved and polite. So he thinks he should just take one Baudelaire which is the youngest, Sunny and leave the other two behind. Because in order to take the fortune, one Baudelaire has to be alive. Count Olaf and his evil troupe head to the Mortmain mountains on the highest peak and finds the V.F.D headquarters. The V.F.D headqaurters is a place where the Baudelaires parents and other friends, secretly meet. Later on they burn down the headquarters. Violet and Klaus some how found Sunny again and someone they would never expect to meet, Quigley Quiqmire. Their friend's triplet who was claimed dead. But that wasn't true. They find the burned down head quarters, and tries to find more clues to their parent's past.

I reccomend this book to anyone who is in for an adventure, or likes complicated, miserable books. This book is a bit challenging and has many series linked with more mysteries after another. There are 13 books in all, and I'm on 11. Almost there!!

Facts about Lemony Snicket

This amaing author's real name is Daniel Handler. He uses Lemony Snicket as a pen name, becasue he's known for being mysterious. For example, if you see all his pictures, it's in black and white, but they're recent pictures. And also he wears a hat and his back to the camera. Rarely you will see his face in pictures. He beleived that some children didn't have a happy begginings and that was true. Daniel's father fled from germany as a young boy because of the Holocaust. "I learned about the Holocaust at a very young age than everyone else", said Daniel Handler. The information affected him in his writing and politics. His famous series: a series of unfortunate events is about three miserable orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny who's parents died because of a fire done by the evil villian Count Olaf. He tries to steal the Baudelaire's rich fortune, so every guardian who takes care of the orphans, he murders them all until he kidnapps them. It's about the miserable journey of orphans. That's why all he's book are not happy. He also plays the accordion because his mom and dad are opera singers.

The books that I read from him are the sereis of unfortunate events from book 1 to book 10. Here are the list of titles starting from 1. The bad beggining, The reptile room, The wide window, The miserable mill, The austere academy, The ersatz elavator, The vile village, The hostile hospital, The carnivorous carnival, and the book that I'm reading right now is The slippery slope.

Links

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff=/c/a/2003/10/13/DD138106.DTL

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/23/daniel_narrowweb__300x336,0.jpg

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/

Typhoon Morokat

This is a picure of a 6 storey hotel that collapsed in the taitung county in taiwan done by the disasterous Typhoon Morokat. I chose this picture because I wanted to show how strong the current of the waves was at the bottomof the picture. Also I wanted to show how powerful the typhoon was that it knocked down a heavy brick, tall building. It was starting to lean in the first picture and the next one is when it's pulling the weight down. After that it collapses into the river and crashes into peices. Now no one knows where it's vanished to. The officials said that 300 of them were evacuated and uninjured. But dozens are still missing and feared dead. It was the worst flooding in 50 years. It hit Taiwan and the east part of China. The typhoon broke the famous bridge in the Chaiyi river. What we're trying to learn from this natural disaster is the people of Taiwan and how they connect and interact with it. We also want to know how the typhoon can seep into the ground and soil, which bases it down to learning about the environment.

First day of middle school

On a sunny August 10th i started middle school and i was feeling excited but nervous at the same time. I made my way down the ramp near the high school science rooms and looked at the at the student's board to see what class i was in. I eventually found my name and next to it was the name, Micheal Hughes. I looked next to it which said Q2. That was my teacher and that was my classroom module. It wasn't so far away since i had to turn around and walk straight, but wait a second, RING!, that was the morning bell and i was late. I rushed into the candle-scented classroom where everyone was already sitting. My teacher passed me a chair. As always, we introduced ourselves and wrote the day schedules. I had beggining strings and drama today. And the next day I had french 1A and PE.

At break time I finally saw my friends and we shared our holiday stories. I also bought my school supplies at D'Toko and bought my lucnh ticket for a hotdog. I headed for begginingg strings in 1-13. I was going to play violin. Then it was lunchtime and i ate my hotdog with my new and old friends. After that i rushed to math/science in P5 with Ms. Marrello. We disscussed the classroom expectations and other things. I ended the day with drama. I was really nervous about this because i'm a bit shy and in drama you have to do things that are loud. After the last bell rang i went back to my homeroom to go over the last few things

Well middle school is exhausting but fun at the same time.