I would rather be launching into Christmassy posts, but first there’s a whole season’s worth of book reviews to dispatch. Yawn.

Here are the best and worst (not to mention everything in between) of my reads from September through November.

See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey Into Kim Jong Un’s North Korea by Travis Jeppesen

The premise: An American man spends a month in the capital of North Korea as a student and tourist (yes, that’s possible).

I have many thoughts. None of them are too pleas...