I love these mail hauls where you also end up talking about the ins and out of book reviewing, and to some extent the publishing world. Always very interesting!
It's around then that there'll next be a wobble in the planet sufficient to cool this area of the world ... although by that point everything east of Worcester will be under water anyway -
The fact that you've already read all the books people writing for you are going to review must create a very uncanny feeling for those poor freelancers! Not that I'd know..