The Austere Academy

Well, actually, this deserves a 3.5 stars. I usually don't read non-fiction but I wanted to change my reading and I decided to read this one. I won't talk about the narrative or the style of writing because this was very easy to read and also extremely realistic. The stories of all those children who live in India have made me realize how lucky I am and my pains and sufferings are nothing compared with they problems. If you read this book and don't feel anything, maybe it's because you have never been in those children's shoes.

Why I put a lower rate? Because I didn't like that kind of ‘advertising' about the GFA. I know that the main purpose of this book is call to others to help this children but in sometimes, I felt like I was reading a newspaper.

By other side, I was touched by the stories and I thank God for the Bridge of hope centers, because they're the hands who help those people.

Lemony Snicket can do no wrong. As depressing and gloomy as the story lines may be, Snicket has an entertaining and dry (humor) style that makes for an interesting read. I read most of the books in this series in middle school and still enjoy them as a 23-year-old graduate student. In this book, in particular, I love the elements of absurdity incorporated into the Baudelaire's “prism of experience” at the boarding school. Sunny, a baby, is forced to serve as secretary to the vice-principal. The three children are provided with abysmal housing in the form of the orphan shack, infested with tan fungus and toe-biting crabs. Onto #6!