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Holiday Customs

Why exactly would I think about candy canes and mistletoe when I think about Christmas?
Tryptophan

Let's take a minute to digest our favorite nutrient of this time of year - tryptophan!
Book: Leviathan

By the end of the trilogy, I was fangirling like a love-struck teenager.
TV: Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a show that does a slow burn very well.

Issue Summary

Here's a little summary of what you can find in this issue:

A couple of ads all around. You know, just a couple. Nothing big.
Quite a number of holiday-related articles and recipes. Definitely check them out!
Lots of reviews: Leviathan trilogy, Demon Girl, Sucker Punch, New Girl, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Abduction, Tricksters duology, Sisters Red, Downton Abbey, and Flypaper.
Introducing Ariella's Strike A Pose, along with the usual columns: Cranky Corner, On the Edge, Fiction Addiction, Science Friction, and Ariel A Piacere.
Oh, and of course, some puzzles and a poem by Zoki.