Readers, I owe you a big apology. It is August and we have neither prompt nor winner.

I have been reading your picks, and moreover, I have been working on sharing my feedback. Unfortunately I am a neurotically slow writer, and to aggravate matters, I have been caught up playing graduation, relocation, and employment mini-games. Everyone has been very generous in sharing their favorites so far, and I really would like to do justice to your picks. So rather than hastily pronouncing a winner and announcing a new topic, I am putting Recommendable on catch-up mode and sticking to reviews of the June/July suggestions.

I hope everyone can bear with me for one more month as I catch my breath. Recommendable will be back on a regular schedule in September.