Wendy: If there is one thing the holiday season guarantees, it is the frenzied speculation over what was hot and was not from the previous months, what can’t be missed entering the new year and what, absolutely, should not be repeated. This is true in movies, music, fashion, and, naturally, books. In the case [...]
Not good, not good at all. Especially when I consider that these books didn’t have much to recommend them in the first place.
Wendy: Christmas is a time of year when, as a nation, a culture, a people, we willingly and gleefully suspend our disbelief. A credible tale really isn’t even required. Take for example that man in red who lives in the most inhospitable place in the world, surrounded by toy-making halflings, who chooses as his mode [...]
