I checked out Lemony Snickett's new holiday story, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story from the library today. Very delightful, and highly recommended. The story at storytime at the library was about a runaway latke, so apparently Snickett's tale derives from a traditional Hanukah story.

A Series of Unfortunate Events is coming out in paperback. The books look pretty nice, but I don't think they're nice enough for me to buy 13 books I already own.