A Christmas book binge awaits. Picture: iStockphoto IF you need me this Christmas, I ll be reading. On my bedside table there are two piles of books. One is a ubiquitous, teetering skyscraper that sits there year-round, seemingly never diminishing in size, even with my voracious reading habit. The other is my special Christmas week stack that I have been carefully curating, fighting the urge to peek inside the pages (I ll admit I have succumbed on a few occasions and ravenously devoured a few paragraphs before tearing myself away). What s in there I hear you ask? Mostly thrillers. Bit of festive schmaltz. A couple of showbiz autobiographies. There are also some book-shaped presents wrapped beneath the tree that I can t wait to tear open come Christmas morning.