Great Issue Congrats on your end-of-year issue [December 25]. I always look forward to reading your journalists' take on covering the stories I've read ["Backstories 2024"]. And the longer obits always make me appreciate the people I knew slightly and make me sorry I didn't know the others ["Life Stories"]. Rick Winston Adamant Disproportionality Disappoints! As a reader and librarian, I look forward to the Reading Issue of Seven Days. Unfortunately, this year's [December 18] confirmed the research shared in my most recent read: The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It, by Mary Ann Sieghart. Sieghart writes that while a majority of books published are written by women, a majority of books reviewed in the press are written by men. Why is that? Partly it is because critics and reviewers are predominantly men; two of the three reviewers in your article "Hibernation Syllabus" are men. But it's also because, while women read books by all genders and suggest them in equal proportions, men tend not to. Your column confirmed the research. Bianca Stone recommended two books by men and two books by women. M.T. Anderson had a ratio of three books by men to one by a woman. And Ken Cadow recommended four books written by men. I was disappointed by this 3-to-1 ratio. Do better, Seven Days! Do better, men! Your lack of willingness to read and review books by women contributes to a world where women's contributions are undervalued. Jeanie Phillips Burlington Time to Join Canada? Thanks to Seven Days for its review of the possibilities for Vermont under King Trump ["Hanging in the Balance: Donald Trump's Return to the Presidency Could Disrupt the Way Many Vermonters Live," December 11]. One thing to consider is that since Vermont was the only state to go against him in the GOP primaries, King Donald might hold a special place in his heart for revenge against us. With this in mind and the other projections of what an authoritarian regime under a man like this could do to us, I wonder if it is not a good time to reconsider joining Canada — that is, of course, if the Canadians will have us. It makes sense. Canada is still a democracy, whereas we will become an authoritarian state as of January 20, having destroyed our own democracy from within…