Perhaps this is the best time to tell you—after I used this space last month to commend some good books to you—that I was in something of a reading slump most of 2012. Similar to a batting slump when a hitter can’t connect his bat to a pitch, a reading slump is not connecting with a lot of the books you’ve picked up to read. The low point of the slump was standing in a bookstore a few weeks ago, generous gift card in hand, and I couldn’t find a thing I really wanted to read. I wandered the... Read More