“Any room in your suitcases?’’ Long experience should have warned me to answer firmly “No,” but I hesitate, and immediately doom falls upon me. “If you could just get in one or two things-” “Not books?” Max looks faintly surprised and says: “Of course books— what else?”

Christmas gifts from @tatepaulette.bsky.social. Some fiction, some cooking, some zooarchaeology, some evolutionary biology. A lot to chew on here.