There are 13 books in total in the series and they are all fabulous. So why do I blog about them? These books tell the story of three orphans and all the bad things that happen to them but also all the times when they surmount all odds to escape peril narrowly. Often times they escape it in ways that they wouldn't exactly desire. The last book though is where it is all concluded...well a small portion of it anyways. You won't find out for instance why does Count Olaf keep killing people over a sugar bowl but the point of the author is concluded there. It is all summed up in one phrase, "[Our parents] didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them."
God didn't send us here to shelter us from all that's horrible in the world. He sent us down here to survive them. And like these books he has provided us many things to help us survive them. These books, if you can survive 13 books of tragedy after tragedy, contain many great little treasures in them. They're short and easy to read as well. I finished them in a month. That was only spending one to two hours a day reading them too. I loved these books because of the great messages that are portrayed in them. You guys all need to read these books.
