A Series of Kafkaesque Events

On Lemony Snicket and Franz Kafka

Graphic: author’s own, made with Canva

Warning: this post discusses and/or references panic attacks and Anxiety, murder, grief, forced marriage, and systemic failings

There are also some (mild) SPOILERS for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.

I recently found myself re-reading Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.

See, I had been reading Stephen King’s IT, but had to leave it mid-read.

I was painstakingly close to the end of IT… but I had to stop — not because of the content, but because when you’ve been having panic attacks, adding IT to the mix isn’t a smart plan. Trust me.

I will finish IT someday, when I’m confident my Anxiety will allow me to — but in the meantime, I needed to find some other reading material.

So I was looking for something that was:

• familiar
• a quick-ish read
• possibly even with pictures to make it just that little bit easier
• yet still with enough of a gothicky edge to keep my emo goblin spaghetti brain happy

…enter A Series of Unfortunate Events.