A December question and a Reading Room question

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I'm going to take the dangerous step of asking two different questions at once in this post... please answer both, it would be very helpful!

1. December/Christmas/Winter 2012 CI5hq advent calendar
The basic question is - would we like to have one of these this year? It used to be that Nell Howell, who runs The Hatstand would post a wonderful advent calendar of Pros fic through December - at first it was just a story recommendation for each day, then she added a picture of the lads, and finally she added a piece of Christmas music to accompany it all - it was a lovely thing to find each day! Sadly she hasn't done this for a few years now, so we decided to have our own version here at ci5hq.
In 2010 we had a Christmas Reading Room review/discussion post for each day - start at the link and click forward through the days to see.
In 2011 we had a simpler Advent Calendar of Stories, a quick rec posted by a volunteer each day - again click your way through the days to see more!
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And/or - do you have any brilliant ideas for a CI5hq December project this year?

2. Reading Room/November
The Reading Room has seemed fairly slow over the past several months, and we've not had many volunteers to lead story reviews and discussion (though people seem to join in when someone does review/rec a story!). I should, of course, have posted a new Reading Room theme at the beginning of October, but in the end I thought it might be an idea to rest for a while and see if people were more up for warming up the chill November nights. So... what do you think?
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