Friends, Daniel Handler (the true author of the book we're reading this week - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book One: A Bad Beginning [1999]) tells a GRIM story. However, the way he tells it is so amusing and comforting that we can't help but love it. We hope you will, too.

Other conversation topics: pasta puttanesca (simply delicious with or without anchovies), the 1990 movie Reversal of Fortune, and getting dressed up for imaginary weddings to Captain Georg Von Trapp.

Next time: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967), by E.L. Konigsburg.

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