All I want for Christmas is peace to read a book
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 o...