Bride of the Special Guest Reviewer!!!

Posts have been unpardonably scarce here of late. I fear that this situation is likely to continue. To assuage the thousands of hundreds of scores of several one or two people who are constantly occasionally possibly clamoring for more content wondering whether I'm still alive, I present to you the fourth in our ongoing series of annual reviews by Mr. Mike Phipps.

Of the books in Mike's list, by the way, I have read these within the last year or three:

• Servants
• Justinian's Flea
• Dynasty
• A History of the World in 100 Objects
• This Is Your Brain on Music
• Catching Fire
• Hero of the Empire
• Iron Dawn

As a rule, my reactions are very similar to Mr. Phipps's.