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For many of us, the weeks ahead offer a little more time and space for reading. Our year-end lists are filled with stories that will meet you wherever you are.

This edition highlights reading about messages in bottles, public benches, infinity, a series of books about everything, and pay-to-play orchestras.

I had no idea that the hot, tingly pain of blood returning to a frozen extremity is called the screaming barfies, until I read “What Is a Body For?” by Diana Saverin.

We learn a lot as we move along; if we’re lucky, we might shed some old wisdom for better understanding.