Reading Plan: December 2016

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveller back to his own fireside and quiet home!” So says Mr. Charlie J. Huffam Dickens, who is most certainly for Christmas. So dust off ye olde copies of A Christmas Carol , light up a crackling fire beneath the mantle, and look yonder, for Christmas is coming, just 24 sleeps from now.

That is just 24 days left in which to purchase up all...