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A review by tallywinkle
The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
4.0
This one was another childhood favourite, although it felt weaker on the reread. I think child-me would have rated 3 over 2, but I'd put 2 over 3 in 2023.
I loved the clever note with grammatical errors that they decoded to find Josephine. It was a childhood favourite and still stands today.
The description of Olaf's androgynous hechperson hasn't aged well at all, ooof. This book is a lot more transphobic than I realized. Rolling my eyes at this book having a theme of "grammar is everything" and it keeps using "his or her". Why do I feel like Aunt Josephine would probably argue that sigular isn't gramatically correct.And are we dehumanizing because they're a villain or because they are large? If you have to ask, it's probably anti-fatness.
Weird audio choice to play a song between each... part? of the story? Why was it there? It was so unnecessary. I miss Tim Curry.
The description of Olaf's androgynous hechperson hasn't aged well at all, ooof. This book is a lot more transphobic than I realized. Rolling my eyes at this book having a theme of "grammar is everything" and it keeps using "his or her". Why do I feel like Aunt Josephine would probably argue that sigular isn't gramatically correct.And are we dehumanizing because they're a villain or because they are large? If you have to ask, it's probably anti-fatness.
Weird audio choice to play a song between each... part? of the story? Why was it there? It was so unnecessary. I miss Tim Curry.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia
Moderate: Fatphobia