Ha! Does it mean that I'm hopelessly warped if suddenly that sentence has gone all risque, what with the "earnest" and the embracing and all? Eep, my brain!

And yay! Another Bellairs fan! It's a three-way tie for my favorite between The Curse of the Blue Figurine, The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt, and The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull. Johnny-and-the-Professor fan here, obviously. *g*