The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity.

From the Guardian:

Together with the American Library Association, he is therefore setting up a new $3,000 (£1,800) award, The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity. "The Snicket prize will remind readers everywhere of the joyous importance of librarians and the trouble that is all too frequently unleashed upon them," said Snicket, who is funding the prize from his own "disreputable gains".

"This seems like a better way to channel money to librarians than my previous strategy, which was incurring exorbitant late fees," said the author. The winner will also receive "an odd, symbolic object" from Snicket's "private stash", he said, "as well as a certificate, which may or may not be suitable for framing".

Heh.

As I do really enjoy Daniel Handler's shenanigans, I really should give the Series of Unfortunate Events another chance.

Comments

[MelissaM]

As much as I think this prize is cool and all, I say you can give the SoUE books a pass if you like. I read most of them and while they are interesting and all, I disliked the overarching doom and blearyness of the series.

though I will say, listening to them was great! We did the first one, which was voiced by Tim Curry. We listened to one or two later books voiced by Handler, which was also good. Hearing him do the voice of Carmelita Spats, who would sing-song "Cakesniffing orphans in the orphan shack!" was just hilarious. Really made that epithet of cakesniffer mean something, though I'm still not sure what. I mean, who hasn't sniffed a freshly baked cake?