I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was filled with way too much food and plenty of good cheer. And whether you spend your Black Friday hunting for deals, snuggling up for naps in between leftovers or trudging back to work (hey, at least the roads were clear for you!) Freebie Friday is still here for you.

So who's the winner of The Cleaving is: Beth! Congratulations, Beth, and I do hope you enjoy Julie Powell's latest.

I've been doing a little less reading than looking lately. Looking at "The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia," to be exact. It's got beautiful, colorful pie charts, bar graphs and maps and graphs that illustrate the world's religions or how much wealthier left-handed men are. There's one visual interpretation of the scientific fact that when two evenly matched teams compete, the one wearing red wins most often. That's good news for both my Terps and my James M. Bennett Clippers -- but where does that leave the Ravens? Hmmm....

Moving on.

This week's giveaway is Michael Crichton's "Pirate Latitudes." As you know, Crichton died last year, but this manuscript was discovered among his files, and so we have one more completed novel from the creator of "Jurassic Park," "ER" and "Congo." (And there is another, uncompleted manuscript that is also set to be released next year, so Crichton fans have yet more to look forward to.)

So what are you reading? Let us know, and you could win this book for yourself, or a loved one -- with no Black Friday madness to soldier through.