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A Series of Unfortunate Events #12.5
The Beatrice Letters
Top secret—only for readers deeply interested in the Baudelaire case. How I pity these readers.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
72 pages, Hardcover
First published September 4, 2006
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Lemony Snicket
283 books26.5k followersLemony Snicket had an unusual education and a perplexing youth and now endures a despondent adulthood. His previous published works include the thirteen volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Composer is Dead, and 13 Words. His new series is All The Wrong Questions.
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October 5, 2020
Very brave of this book to answer the question, What if there was an installment of my favorite series except with all of my favorite stuff taken out?
The answer: Mild suffering and immense disappointment.
This is an A Series of Unfortunate Events book without the Baudelaires, with as many riddles but without any hints to solutions, without any satisfying furthering of the mysteries, and without the sparkly wonderful writing.
Even though this is a really spectacular format and design, and even though this contains my favorite quote of all time (see below), a lot of the writing falls flat.
It creates more questions and then doesn’t answer them and these questions are less interesting than those in the original series, and also sadder.
Plus epistolary almost never works for me.
But still. I’ll take anything I can get.
Bottom line: I miss my orphans.
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pre-review
5 stars for format and design alone.
stars deducted for ruining my life.
review to come / 3.5 stars
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currently-reading review
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
is there a better quote in all of human existence?
(hint: no.)
The answer: Mild suffering and immense disappointment.
This is an A Series of Unfortunate Events book without the Baudelaires, with as many riddles but without any hints to solutions, without any satisfying furthering of the mysteries, and without the sparkly wonderful writing.
Even though this is a really spectacular format and design, and even though this contains my favorite quote of all time (see below), a lot of the writing falls flat.
It creates more questions and then doesn’t answer them and these questions are less interesting than those in the original series, and also sadder.
Plus epistolary almost never works for me.
But still. I’ll take anything I can get.
Bottom line: I miss my orphans.
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pre-review
5 stars for format and design alone.
stars deducted for ruining my life.
review to come / 3.5 stars
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currently-reading review
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
is there a better quote in all of human existence?
(hint: no.)
February 6, 2015
If I were to rate this book on the design alone I would definitely give it 5 stars, but for me the letters didn't do much for me. I would have rather read a book about what the Baudelaire's are up to. I'm happy to have this book though as it's BEAUTIFUL.
February 5, 2009
The end is near. Followers of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” know that the thirteenth, and last, book of the series, titled “The End”, is out on the thirteenth day of the tenth month on the fifth day of the week. A confusing phrase which here means: Friday, October 13th, 2006.
Lovers of the series have devoured each book and Lemony Snicket, the series’ elusive author, has earned himself quite a following. A phrase which here means a LOT of happy readers who like to devour every word the author writes in hopes of solving a complicated mystery.
Why they would amuse themselves with the trivialities and misfortune that befalls the Baudelaire Orphans is beyond me. Horrible things happen to these lucky children: Their house burns down, they lose their parents, they get taken in by a nefarious criminal, Count Olaf, who tries to take their massive fortune.
And that’s just the beginning of their woes. But Lemony Snicket, chronicler of the lives of the Baudelaire Orphans, has also earned himself an air of mystery. Here which means a confusing situation that may or may not be solved with the help of bloodhounds on a cloudy day.
Little is known about the elusive author and littler still of his great love: Beatrice. Each of the twelve books has been dedicated to her in some way. “The Penultimate Peril,” Book the Twelfth in “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” is dedicated to her thusly:
For Beatrice-
No one could extinguish my love,
or your house.
Thus we come to: “The Beatrice Letters.” Here we have a File Box of information. A phrase, which here means a book that opens to two file folders, holding a double-sided poster with clues and the letters themselves, carefully bound in tape. There are letters to Beatrice from Lemony and to Lemony from Beatrice. All through out them, codes abound.
Cryptograms appear galore; sprinkled through out a collection of business cards, file photographs, telegrams, poems and letters written on scraps of paper, we learn of a love affair between Snicket and Beatrice, who claims to be a fourth Baudelaire sibling. A love blooms between them in their search for Violet, Klaus and Sunny. And mayhap we learn a few secrets along the way.
But these are not just your normal letters. In fact there are Letters encased in amongst the letters, which is to say there are punch out Letters with which you can make many names.
Snicket says of these punch out Letters at the end of the letters:
“For many years I thought if I collected all these letters and their accompanying ephemera—a phrase which here means “documents and items which I feared had vanished, and may soon vanish again”—I could put all of them in the proper order, as if solving an anagram by putting all of the letters in the right order. But letters are not letters, so the arrangement of letters is not as simple as the arrangement of letters, and even if it were, the arrangement of these letters could spell out more than one thing…”
The only problem with the Letters is that I do not want to punch them out of the page, thereby ruining the book. I can only write them down in my commonplace book, in hopes of solving their anagram secret. There are many secrets encased “The Beatrice Letters”, which is suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth; but this author can’t figure them out.
I’ve read through “The Beatrice Letters” twice now and am unable to decipher anything but a few obvious clues. As to how “The Beatrice Letters” is linked to Book the Thirteenth, perhaps we finally find out the identity of the elusive Lemony Snicket? I’m going to have to rifle through “The Beatrice Letters” many more times before its secrets become clear.
Though I am loath to admit it—a phrase here, which means with great reluctance, unwilling or disinclined—I was disappointed when I first picked up “The Beatrice Letters.” I was expecting a book, similar to “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket” whose pages I could scour for clues. What I wasn’t expecting was a file of letters and a large poster.
After going over “The Beatrice Letters,” though, it’s become clear to me what Lemony Snicket has given us. With only just over a month until the last and final book in the series, Lemony Snicket has given us a challenge, a game. Our challenge is to try and find the shocking secrets about Book the Thirteenth. Indeed, “The Beatrice Letters” are quite brilliant. Instead of another book to add to the series, Snicket has given us something all together different; something we can sink our teeth—and brains—into until the last book finally hits stores.
I for one will be waiting with anticipatory glee—a phrase here which means great eagerness—until then. I’ll have to read “The Beatrice Letters” again, commonplace book beside me open to a fresh page, to see if I can find the secrets out, before it’s too late.
Lovers of the series have devoured each book and Lemony Snicket, the series’ elusive author, has earned himself quite a following. A phrase which here means a LOT of happy readers who like to devour every word the author writes in hopes of solving a complicated mystery.
Why they would amuse themselves with the trivialities and misfortune that befalls the Baudelaire Orphans is beyond me. Horrible things happen to these lucky children: Their house burns down, they lose their parents, they get taken in by a nefarious criminal, Count Olaf, who tries to take their massive fortune.
And that’s just the beginning of their woes. But Lemony Snicket, chronicler of the lives of the Baudelaire Orphans, has also earned himself an air of mystery. Here which means a confusing situation that may or may not be solved with the help of bloodhounds on a cloudy day.
Little is known about the elusive author and littler still of his great love: Beatrice. Each of the twelve books has been dedicated to her in some way. “The Penultimate Peril,” Book the Twelfth in “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” is dedicated to her thusly:
For Beatrice-
No one could extinguish my love,
or your house.
Thus we come to: “The Beatrice Letters.” Here we have a File Box of information. A phrase, which here means a book that opens to two file folders, holding a double-sided poster with clues and the letters themselves, carefully bound in tape. There are letters to Beatrice from Lemony and to Lemony from Beatrice. All through out them, codes abound.
Cryptograms appear galore; sprinkled through out a collection of business cards, file photographs, telegrams, poems and letters written on scraps of paper, we learn of a love affair between Snicket and Beatrice, who claims to be a fourth Baudelaire sibling. A love blooms between them in their search for Violet, Klaus and Sunny. And mayhap we learn a few secrets along the way.
But these are not just your normal letters. In fact there are Letters encased in amongst the letters, which is to say there are punch out Letters with which you can make many names.
Snicket says of these punch out Letters at the end of the letters:
“For many years I thought if I collected all these letters and their accompanying ephemera—a phrase which here means “documents and items which I feared had vanished, and may soon vanish again”—I could put all of them in the proper order, as if solving an anagram by putting all of the letters in the right order. But letters are not letters, so the arrangement of letters is not as simple as the arrangement of letters, and even if it were, the arrangement of these letters could spell out more than one thing…”
The only problem with the Letters is that I do not want to punch them out of the page, thereby ruining the book. I can only write them down in my commonplace book, in hopes of solving their anagram secret. There are many secrets encased “The Beatrice Letters”, which is suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth; but this author can’t figure them out.
I’ve read through “The Beatrice Letters” twice now and am unable to decipher anything but a few obvious clues. As to how “The Beatrice Letters” is linked to Book the Thirteenth, perhaps we finally find out the identity of the elusive Lemony Snicket? I’m going to have to rifle through “The Beatrice Letters” many more times before its secrets become clear.
Though I am loath to admit it—a phrase here, which means with great reluctance, unwilling or disinclined—I was disappointed when I first picked up “The Beatrice Letters.” I was expecting a book, similar to “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket” whose pages I could scour for clues. What I wasn’t expecting was a file of letters and a large poster.
After going over “The Beatrice Letters,” though, it’s become clear to me what Lemony Snicket has given us. With only just over a month until the last and final book in the series, Lemony Snicket has given us a challenge, a game. Our challenge is to try and find the shocking secrets about Book the Thirteenth. Indeed, “The Beatrice Letters” are quite brilliant. Instead of another book to add to the series, Snicket has given us something all together different; something we can sink our teeth—and brains—into until the last book finally hits stores.
I for one will be waiting with anticipatory glee—a phrase here which means great eagerness—until then. I’ll have to read “The Beatrice Letters” again, commonplace book beside me open to a fresh page, to see if I can find the secrets out, before it’s too late.
August 10, 2009
My Dearest Darling,
I received all two hundred pages of your book explaining why you cannot marry me, and I gave the carrier pigeons as much seed as they could eat, and I brushed their feathers with my trembling fingers, and bathed their beaks in my tears. I had to read the book three and a half times before I could write to you.
...I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else, and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children or three children, or even more, although I personally think three is plenty, and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned. That, Beatrice, is how I will love you, even as the world goes on its wicked way.
This book is love. just like Jayber Crow
I received all two hundred pages of your book explaining why you cannot marry me, and I gave the carrier pigeons as much seed as they could eat, and I brushed their feathers with my trembling fingers, and bathed their beaks in my tears. I had to read the book three and a half times before I could write to you.
...I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else, and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children or three children, or even more, although I personally think three is plenty, and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned. That, Beatrice, is how I will love you, even as the world goes on its wicked way.
This book is love. just like Jayber Crow
January 5, 2012
Spoilers for this book and The End I would recommend reading this book after reading all of the other ones first.
December 4, 2016
It was nice sort of revisiting the world of ASOUE but now I have many more questions. I think a new series with Beatrice would be an awesome addition to this world. :-)
With all due respect,
Richard Denney
With all due respect,
Richard Denney
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October 9, 2011In conjunction with A Series of Unfortunate Events, this is a book which reminds us that kids aren't as dumb as we often blame them to be. Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) is one of the few authors who has created a no-nonsense children's series with plenty of delightful nonsense. The Baudelaires are what children protagonists should act like: reasonable, noble, intelligent. This book hints at a story that is much bigger than any of us realize in our daily reading, writing, and secret volunteering.
April 12, 2024
➳ 5 ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚
╰┈➤ ”i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
this is another companion book to the asoue series. it includes 13 letters: 6 from lemony to beatrice baudelaire, 6 from beatrice II to lemony, and one from lemony to his editor. i t also encloses actual letters (as in: ABC) that spell out something “mysteriously linked to book 13)”
if you enjoyed asoue i highly recommend this book. it has all of snicket’s usual charm and adds a lot to the series. we get some background of lemony + beatrice’s relationship and also some information about what becomes of beatrice II after the series. it can be a bit confusing (since there are two beatrice’s, not clearly specified) but once you get the hang of it, this is a lovely book with lots of wonderful information!!
snicket fans, i highly recommend this one (and all of his books) 💌😌
╰┈➤ ”to beatrice - and from her”
୧ ‧₊˚ 🍓 ⋅ ☆
╰┈➤ ”i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
this is another companion book to the asoue series. it includes 13 letters: 6 from lemony to beatrice baudelaire, 6 from beatrice II to lemony, and one from lemony to his editor. i t also encloses actual letters (as in: ABC) that spell out something “mysteriously linked to book 13)”
if you enjoyed asoue i highly recommend this book. it has all of snicket’s usual charm and adds a lot to the series. we get some background of lemony + beatrice’s relationship and also some information about what becomes of beatrice II after the series. it can be a bit confusing (since there are two beatrice’s, not clearly specified) but once you get the hang of it, this is a lovely book with lots of wonderful information!!
snicket fans, i highly recommend this one (and all of his books) 💌😌
╰┈➤ ”to beatrice - and from her”
୧ ‧₊˚ 🍓 ⋅ ☆
June 8, 2012
Can we just talk about all the feelings I have after reading this book? Seriously. My favorite part of the ASOUE series was Lemony Snicket's relationship with Beatrice. Actually, while I was reading the series, I wished there was a book that put more emphasis on their story, and this book does exactly that. It's incredibly heartbreaking reading Snicket's letters to Beatrice. I don't even want to get into his letter proclaiming his love for her, because I was in chills and near tears the whole time (and I'm sure it will always had this effect on me, no matter how many times I read it). They're probably my favorite fictional couple after Lily Evans and Severus Snape. Anyway, I also liked baby Beatrice's letters to Lemony Snicket, which take a less serious tone. I also have to mention the physical characteristics of this book. It's probably the most beautiful book I've ever bought, and I love how it's organized with files. I'm probably going to go read this a hundred more times tonight.
May 10, 2025
An odd, yet lovely book that answers none of my questions and simply raises more. But that is typical Lemony Snicket fare for you.
This book is brimming with clues, I can feel it. Strands of unsolved mysteries dance between the words between the lines between the pages.
The story of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is haunting and dark and lovely. In that way, this book fits in perfectly. But this book is much less of a story, and much more of a strange and unsettling (yet Gothicly beautiful) love poem.
Lemony Snicket is like a deep black well, or a strange curling question mark uncoiling and recoiling below the roiling waves.
He is not an unknown figure -- he is Lemony Snicket -- and by reading his books (primarily "All The Wrong Questions" and the "Unauthorized Autobiography"), you can learn a great deal of facts about him. (There also are a great deal of facts that remain mysteries). But facts are not what make a man, and beneath all that knowledge, there is a greater mystery, uncoiling and recoiling below the waves.
Snicket never sees himself as the mystery, to be sure. In his books, the deepest mystery is always something else -- Ellington Feint, the question mark under the sea, Beatrice, the Bombinating Beast (but I repeat myself), etc. But, as he observes, wisely, in "File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents", while all these things may be mysteries to him, to others, he may be the greater mystery. And never was he so correct.
What transformed Lemony from the bright, ambitious, noble youngster we see in "All The Wrong Questions", to the brooding and moody writer of "Unfortunate Events", obsessing over his lost love and stalking her children?
Part of that transformation can be seen in "All the Wrong Questions", but other parts of it appear to have been lost through the years, and now at the center of Snicket's life, there remains simply a hole, a yawning blackness. A name, rippled and by secrets and tainted by fire.
Beatrice.
There are answers riddled into this book, buried among the questions. There are secrets to be discovered.
"The secrets contained here are like all secrets -- dangerous to those who discover them and harmless to those who fail to notice them."
-- from the final letter
Even after reading this thrice, I look forward to rereading this book again, to digging in yet deeper and piecing together all the breadcrumbs Snicket has left for us.
With all due respect,
Joseph Brink
This book is brimming with clues, I can feel it. Strands of unsolved mysteries dance between the words between the lines between the pages.
The story of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is haunting and dark and lovely. In that way, this book fits in perfectly. But this book is much less of a story, and much more of a strange and unsettling (yet Gothicly beautiful) love poem.
Lemony Snicket is like a deep black well, or a strange curling question mark uncoiling and recoiling below the roiling waves.
He is not an unknown figure -- he is Lemony Snicket -- and by reading his books (primarily "All The Wrong Questions" and the "Unauthorized Autobiography"), you can learn a great deal of facts about him. (There also are a great deal of facts that remain mysteries). But facts are not what make a man, and beneath all that knowledge, there is a greater mystery, uncoiling and recoiling below the waves.
Snicket never sees himself as the mystery, to be sure. In his books, the deepest mystery is always something else -- Ellington Feint, the question mark under the sea, Beatrice, the Bombinating Beast (but I repeat myself), etc. But, as he observes, wisely, in "File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents", while all these things may be mysteries to him, to others, he may be the greater mystery. And never was he so correct.
What transformed Lemony from the bright, ambitious, noble youngster we see in "All The Wrong Questions", to the brooding and moody writer of "Unfortunate Events", obsessing over his lost love and stalking her children?
Part of that transformation can be seen in "All the Wrong Questions", but other parts of it appear to have been lost through the years, and now at the center of Snicket's life, there remains simply a hole, a yawning blackness. A name, rippled and by secrets and tainted by fire.
Beatrice.
There are answers riddled into this book, buried among the questions. There are secrets to be discovered.
"The secrets contained here are like all secrets -- dangerous to those who discover them and harmless to those who fail to notice them."
-- from the final letter
Even after reading this thrice, I look forward to rereading this book again, to digging in yet deeper and piecing together all the breadcrumbs Snicket has left for us.
With all due respect,
Joseph Brink
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December 30, 2020lemony snicket wrote, “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as the starfish loves a coral reef and as kudzu loves trees, even if the oceans turn to sawdust and the trees fall in the forest without anyone around to hear them. I will love you as the pesto loves the fettuccini and ats the horseradish loves the miyagi, and the pepperoni loves the pizza. I will love you as the manatee loves the head of lettuce and as the dark spot loves the leopard, as the leech loves the ankle of a wader and as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you as the doctor loves his sickest patient and a lake loves its thirstiest swimmer. I will love you as the beard loves the chin, and the crumbs love the beard, and the damp napkin loves the crumbs, and the precious document loves the dampness of the napkin, and the squinting eye of the reader loves the smudged document, and the tears of sadness love the squinting eye as it misreads what is written. I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat, and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp... I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled. I will love you until every fire is extinguished and rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods. I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close... I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else--and i will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way," and i read that at age 9 and never recovered.
April 29, 2008
Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com
If you've been following Lemony Snicket's A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, then you've undoubtedly read of Beatrice Baudelaire. Who she is, exactly, is a mystery. And although this book is entitled THE BEATRICE LETTERS, don't think that you'll finally learn who Beatrice is. You won't. In fact, there's not a whole lot you'll learn about anything or anyone having to do with the series.
Don't get me wrong. THE BEATRICE LETTERS is fun. It's gorgeously packaged. It comes with a poster, a dossier of sorts that contains letters to Beatrice and letters from Beatrice. It has ingenious pop-out letters that you can use to attempt to decode a number of anagrams. It has business cards. It has pictures of a metal tool and a paperweight. It has, in fact, all manner of beautifully put together items that tell you nothing.
For the ultimate A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS fan, this is a book you must include in your collection. For the bored fan, this is a book that will provide you with hours of hair-pulling frustration as you attempt to decipher clues that seem to have no answer. For the mid-line fan, this is a book that just looks pretty.
For cleverness, ingenuity, and presentation, THE BEATRICE LETTERS gets 5 Stars. For content, or at least helpful content, the book gets 3 Stars. Overall, a 4 Star read, but one I would recommend most strongly to the biggest Baudelaire devotee.
If you've been following Lemony Snicket's A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, then you've undoubtedly read of Beatrice Baudelaire. Who she is, exactly, is a mystery. And although this book is entitled THE BEATRICE LETTERS, don't think that you'll finally learn who Beatrice is. You won't. In fact, there's not a whole lot you'll learn about anything or anyone having to do with the series.
Don't get me wrong. THE BEATRICE LETTERS is fun. It's gorgeously packaged. It comes with a poster, a dossier of sorts that contains letters to Beatrice and letters from Beatrice. It has ingenious pop-out letters that you can use to attempt to decode a number of anagrams. It has business cards. It has pictures of a metal tool and a paperweight. It has, in fact, all manner of beautifully put together items that tell you nothing.
For the ultimate A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS fan, this is a book you must include in your collection. For the bored fan, this is a book that will provide you with hours of hair-pulling frustration as you attempt to decipher clues that seem to have no answer. For the mid-line fan, this is a book that just looks pretty.
For cleverness, ingenuity, and presentation, THE BEATRICE LETTERS gets 5 Stars. For content, or at least helpful content, the book gets 3 Stars. Overall, a 4 Star read, but one I would recommend most strongly to the biggest Baudelaire devotee.
April 6, 2020
لمونی اسنیکت همیشه وقایع تلخ رو به شکلی طنز و نرم و دوست داشتنی توصیف می کنه و تشبیهاتی که میاره بی نظیرن، هیچ جا مثلشون پیدا نمیشه.
توی این کتاب هم مثل بقیه ی کتاب های مجموعه این توصیفات رو اورده بود. 5 صفحه پشت سر هم بدون این که احساس خستگی به آدم دست بده یا حوصله سر بر باشه داشت به بئاتریس میگفت اینجوری دوستت دارم، اونجوری دوستت دارم:)) خیلی بامزه و عزیز بود.
این چند صفحه رو به کل کتاب هایی از قبیل نامه های شاملو به آیدا و نادر ابراهیمی به همسرش نمیدونم فلانی به فلانی ترجیح میدم هرچند شاید قیاس مناسبی هم نباشه.
پ.ن. من یه پی دی اف ناقص 43 صفحه ای از این کتاب تونستم پیدا کنم یعنی چیزی حدود سی صفحه توی پی دی افش نبود متاسفانه. خیلی دوست دارم کتاب اصلی و کاملش رو یه روز بتونم پیدا کنم و بخونم.
توی این کتاب هم مثل بقیه ی کتاب های مجموعه این توصیفات رو اورده بود. 5 صفحه پشت سر هم بدون این که احساس خستگی به آدم دست بده یا حوصله سر بر باشه داشت به بئاتریس میگفت اینجوری دوستت دارم، اونجوری دوستت دارم:)) خیلی بامزه و عزیز بود.
این چند صفحه رو به کل کتاب هایی از قبیل نامه های شاملو به آیدا و نادر ابراهیمی به همسرش نمیدونم فلانی به فلانی ترجیح میدم هرچند شاید قیاس مناسبی هم نباشه.
پ.ن. من یه پی دی اف ناقص 43 صفحه ای از این کتاب تونستم پیدا کنم یعنی چیزی حدود سی صفحه توی پی دی افش نبود متاسفانه. خیلی دوست دارم کتاب اصلی و کاملش رو یه روز بتونم پیدا کنم و بخونم.
July 12, 2022
sobbing, crying, throwing up, passing out, screaming, dying
February 16, 2018
The Beatrice Letters is a short book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author, Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler). It consists of twelve items of correspondence between Lemony Snicket and Beatrice Buadelaire, who is apparently the sister of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and a letter to his editor. While it is difficult to make any sense at all out of this, frankly, bizarre collection, Snicket does display his love of whacky definitions and wordplay like puns and anagrams. The items include calling cards, a poem, a telegram and letters: typed, hand-written and of the punch-out variety, this last allowing for plenty of games with homonyms. Separating these items are colour-plates of shipwrecks, caves and certain relevant(?) objects. There is probably some cleverness in there somewhere, but not enough to justify the price unless you are a die-hard Series of Unfortunate Events fan. Disappointing.
October 7, 2018
“To Beatrice and From Her.”
This book is exactly as described. Lemony’s letters to late Beatrice, late Beatrice’s letters to Lemony but also young Beatrice’s letters to Lemony, searching for him after losing the Baudelaires.
My favourite thing about this book is the hints we get from each letter. From young/new Beatrice’s we get a little update on the Baudelaires and what happened to them after their boat sank. With Lemony’s letters we get tidbits of new information about the past. Also VERY interesting how baby Beatrice says the Baudelaires’ recollection of their unfortunate events is quite different from what Lemony Snicket wrote in his books. Does this confirm my unreliable narrator theory? Perhaps!
Beatrice begging Lemony to meet her for a root beer float and discuss the Baudelaires and the audience never knowing how that went breaks my heart. It looks like the show will give us a proper ending with that scene in particular! For Beatrice and Lemony. 🍻
This book is exactly as described. Lemony’s letters to late Beatrice, late Beatrice’s letters to Lemony but also young Beatrice’s letters to Lemony, searching for him after losing the Baudelaires.
My favourite thing about this book is the hints we get from each letter. From young/new Beatrice’s we get a little update on the Baudelaires and what happened to them after their boat sank. With Lemony’s letters we get tidbits of new information about the past. Also VERY interesting how baby Beatrice says the Baudelaires’ recollection of their unfortunate events is quite different from what Lemony Snicket wrote in his books. Does this confirm my unreliable narrator theory? Perhaps!
Beatrice begging Lemony to meet her for a root beer float and discuss the Baudelaires and the audience never knowing how that went breaks my heart. It looks like the show will give us a proper ending with that scene in particular! For Beatrice and Lemony. 🍻
September 30, 2025
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
February 24, 2025
I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.
January 11, 2013
Finally completed my collection!
A great add to my collection. Still didn't contain real answers to the many questions that was left in my mind when the series ended, nonetheless it was a great read. Like Lemony Snicket's The Unauthorized Autobiography, The Beatrice Letters may leave you scouring for clues, wanting to get into solving the huge mystery enveloping the Baudelaire children.
I love how the book had a Lemony Snicket feel to it. I love how it wasn't an ordinary book. When you open it, there's actually two 'compartments', one is containing an actual book, the other is where you should supposedly place all the "letters" you tear/push out from the pages of the actual book. You can actually 'play' with these letters to decode anagrams-- Lemony Snicket trademark, indeed.
The Beatrice Letters did include this long,long letter that Lemony Snicket sent to Beatrice Baudelaire, and it was definitely my favorite part of the book. It was a very amusing read.
I'm so happy I finally have this in my collection. :D
A great add to my collection. Still didn't contain real answers to the many questions that was left in my mind when the series ended, nonetheless it was a great read. Like Lemony Snicket's The Unauthorized Autobiography, The Beatrice Letters may leave you scouring for clues, wanting to get into solving the huge mystery enveloping the Baudelaire children.
I love how the book had a Lemony Snicket feel to it. I love how it wasn't an ordinary book. When you open it, there's actually two 'compartments', one is containing an actual book, the other is where you should supposedly place all the "letters" you tear/push out from the pages of the actual book. You can actually 'play' with these letters to decode anagrams-- Lemony Snicket trademark, indeed.
The Beatrice Letters did include this long,long letter that Lemony Snicket sent to Beatrice Baudelaire, and it was definitely my favorite part of the book. It was a very amusing read.
"...I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms."
I'm so happy I finally have this in my collection. :D
December 3, 2017
This is to be read after completing the entire Series of Unfortunate Events. It’s been some years since I read them, so some details are fuzzy. Original series spoilers follow.
The book is wonderfully artistic; visually delightful. It comes with two folder pockets, each labeled “Letters.” One is for written letters, and one is for letters of the alphabet and a fold-out poster. The written letters booklet contains punch-out letters as a puzzle for you. The letters Lemony writes are to Beatrice, the Baudelaires’ mother. The ones from Beatrice are written by the baby Beatrice who was being raised by the three orphans on the island at the end of the series. She is now 10 years old and separated from the orphans. So more questions; not so many answers.
I played around with anagrams of the punch-out letters a bit and came up with Beatrice Sank (appropriate since that was the ship’s name that sank) and A Snicket Bare/Bear A Snicket, which could make sense.
One side of the poster shows the shipwreck of the Beatrice with evidence that the three orphans were there. The other side shows a cave with bats (hinted at in the letters) and hints that Lemony was there.
I’m sure you could discover more clues here if you cared to spend the time. Try not to go insane doing so.
The book is wonderfully artistic; visually delightful. It comes with two folder pockets, each labeled “Letters.” One is for written letters, and one is for letters of the alphabet and a fold-out poster. The written letters booklet contains punch-out letters as a puzzle for you. The letters Lemony writes are to Beatrice, the Baudelaires’ mother. The ones from Beatrice are written by the baby Beatrice who was being raised by the three orphans on the island at the end of the series. She is now 10 years old and separated from the orphans. So more questions; not so many answers.
I played around with anagrams of the punch-out letters a bit and came up with Beatrice Sank (appropriate since that was the ship’s name that sank) and A Snicket Bare/Bear A Snicket, which could make sense.
One side of the poster shows the shipwreck of the Beatrice with evidence that the three orphans were there. The other side shows a cave with bats (hinted at in the letters) and hints that Lemony was there.
I’m sure you could discover more clues here if you cared to spend the time. Try not to go insane doing so.
March 10, 2022
"I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong... I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled...that, Beatrice, is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way"
The amount of references and small pieces that connect to the rest of the books, as well as the delightfully Snicket writing makes this *chefs kiss*
The amount of references and small pieces that connect to the rest of the books, as well as the delightfully Snicket writing makes this *chefs kiss*
June 10, 2025
you better believe i was crying my eyes out while reading this letter
“I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
“I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
August 28, 2024
Y’all, another addition to The Series of Unfortunate Events, so of course I had to get my hands on it and give it a try. The book is a short and sweet tale of letters that are exchanged between Beatrice Baudelaire and Lemony Snicket. It’s definitely a uniquely styled book, I enjoyed how the letters went back and forth between the two, they took many shapes and forms. From cursive to typed to telegrammed to creative ways of getting one another the letters. There’s also little inserts of images and items mixed in the pages. It’s definitely a fun twist while reading this!
Like I said, this book is short and sweet. It’s truly such a quick read that’s definitely interesting and more insightful of key characters in the Baudelaires story. It was a good, fun, quick and easy read that was just cool to read!
In typical writing from of Lemony Snicket, this book definitely leaves more questions and loose ends and even more that could be followed up on. I feel like I didn’t get answers to anything really, just more of a mystery. Nonetheless, the book itself is downright cool. As a first time reader of the series and all the additions to it, I’m regretting not starting them sooner! I have nothing bad to say about the series or any additions that come along with A Series of Unfortunate Events. I would definitely recommend the series and additions, totally worth it yall!
Like I said, this book is short and sweet. It’s truly such a quick read that’s definitely interesting and more insightful of key characters in the Baudelaires story. It was a good, fun, quick and easy read that was just cool to read!
In typical writing from of Lemony Snicket, this book definitely leaves more questions and loose ends and even more that could be followed up on. I feel like I didn’t get answers to anything really, just more of a mystery. Nonetheless, the book itself is downright cool. As a first time reader of the series and all the additions to it, I’m regretting not starting them sooner! I have nothing bad to say about the series or any additions that come along with A Series of Unfortunate Events. I would definitely recommend the series and additions, totally worth it yall!
December 21, 2020
No puedo creer que finalmente leí este libro. Ha estado en mi tbr ocho años.
En fin. No esperaba mucho, la verdad. Quizá en algún momento ansiaba leer las cartas y saber más sobre Beatrice, las dos Beatrice, pero con Lemony Snicket es imposible. Si esperaba resolver dudas, no se resolvió ninguna, incluso se crearon más y quedé confundida, pues Lemony incluye los ya conocidos anagramas, juegos de palabras y referencias misteriosas.
Mi yo de hace 8 años estaría encantada. Pero mi yo de ahora solo admira la increíble manera en que está diseñado el libro, se sorprende por el "If you want to meet me, I'm the ten-year-old girl at the corner table" y sonríe.
En fin. No esperaba mucho, la verdad. Quizá en algún momento ansiaba leer las cartas y saber más sobre Beatrice, las dos Beatrice, pero con Lemony Snicket es imposible. Si esperaba resolver dudas, no se resolvió ninguna, incluso se crearon más y quedé confundida, pues Lemony incluye los ya conocidos anagramas, juegos de palabras y referencias misteriosas.
Mi yo de hace 8 años estaría encantada. Pero mi yo de ahora solo admira la increíble manera en que está diseñado el libro, se sorprende por el "If you want to meet me, I'm the ten-year-old girl at the corner table" y sonríe.
August 11, 2024
This book read more like an afterthought than adding anything really special to the series. A Series of Unfortunate Events was wildly successful, for it’s reverse psychology telling us “not to pick up this book”, it’s funny “talk in circles” prose, and us constantly wondering if the Baudelaire’s were ever going to get a break.
The series spawned a Jim Carey movie, a multi-seasonal Netflix series, and an incredible audiobook series narrated by the powerful, overly-enthusiastic, and slightly sarcastic Tim Curry.
If you want to know what happened to the three Baudelaire orphans after they left Book 13: The End, please look elsewhere. We don’t learn much about Beatrice or Lemony Snicket and nothing at all about the Baudelaires expect Beatrice is looking for them and they went missing.
And no, I won’t be talking about the design of the book!
The series spawned a Jim Carey movie, a multi-seasonal Netflix series, and an incredible audiobook series narrated by the powerful, overly-enthusiastic, and slightly sarcastic Tim Curry.
If you want to know what happened to the three Baudelaire orphans after they left Book 13: The End, please look elsewhere. We don’t learn much about Beatrice or Lemony Snicket and nothing at all about the Baudelaires expect Beatrice is looking for them and they went missing.
And no, I won’t be talking about the design of the book!
June 6, 2019
Ahhhh the beauty... the pure beauty in every page
December 27, 2025
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
review to come
review to come
March 31, 2011
"In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
- Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
As a fan of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books, I like to seek out other related works by Lemony Snicket in order to get the whole picture.
First off, this book is inteded for a younger audience as there is an interactive element to it. An element that you may not get to take part in if you've borrowed your copy from the library!
Secondly, the book does contain Snicket's usual brand of humor, but it is familiar territory for those who have read the entire series.
Lastly, this book suffers from its lack of storyline. This really ought to have been written in the same detailed novel format of the rest of the series. I know that a short book of correspondences in and of itself won't produce much detail or drama, but it had the potential. I would love to see an entire book based on the adventures of the younger Beatrice Baudelaire.
As it is, I did personally enjoy the short read, as it gave just a bit more detail into the histories (and futures) of the characters in the A Series of Unfortunate Events world.
September 7, 2022
While I'm rereading the Series of Unfortunate Events, I wanted to make sure I hit the supplemental books as well. This is one I never read in my initial read of the series. This is a neat endeavor of Lemony's correspondence with Beatrice and then the sudden change when she can't marry him. There is also letters from Beatrice but not the Baudelaire's mother but their ward. Which begs the question of what happened after the final book. I think the tv show does a better job of connecting the story being eluded to here and the end of the series. This is a cool piece, but as I got it from the library I wasn't able to pop out the letters and solve the anagram. If any one did and wants to let me know what it spells, I'd appreciate it. I'm not good at puzzles.
A decent piece for collector's but not a necessary read.
A decent piece for collector's but not a necessary read.
August 5, 2017
This book is invaluable to anyone who has read the entire Series of Unfortunate Events.
*spoilers*
It is important to note that the Beatrice Lemony Snicket is writing to is the Baudelaires' mother, whereas the Beatrice who is writing to him is Kit Snicket's child.
There is also a poster contained in this collection on letters, which I believe is meant to imply that the Baudelaires have died.
Ah well. 'Twas The End after all.
*spoilers*
It is important to note that the Beatrice Lemony Snicket is writing to is the Baudelaires' mother, whereas the Beatrice who is writing to him is Kit Snicket's child.
There is also a poster contained in this collection on letters, which I believe is meant to imply that the Baudelaires have died.
Ah well. 'Twas The End after all.
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