Watch Your Mouth
by Daniel Handler

Read March 2007
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch
Essay written June 22nd, 2007

I don't know where to begin. I don't know what words to use to begin an essay about this book. Words like "dazzling" and "provocative" just don't work, because this book is so much more than that.

For lovers of opera, Pittsburgh, Jewish folklore, alcohol, and incest. I have never read anything like this book. His other book that I've read, Adverbs, was spectacular too and yet in a completely different way.

I can't recall when I've ever had so much fun reading a book before. Let me just leave it at that, because to try to describe what was so astounding is to do this book an injustice. It's not that I think I'll ruin it by describing it, it's just that I have to fall short of the mark necessarily.

You know, if Daniel Handler ever Googles himself and comes across this page and reads what I've written about him, then let me just say: "Hi, Daniel Handler!"

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