Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/26

When I get books in the mail, I write about them here, every Monday morning.

But Christmas week is not a time when book-publicity packages are flying thickly: the publicists, like all of us, are distracted by more festive things, and the mails are jammed with commercial packages.

So there's nothing to write about this week. Probably nothing next week, too.

Instead, you get the other things that I've been posting here, since I've been off from work and actually have a few moments to string words together. I hope they haven't been too much of a disappointment.