At this time of year, other families may fret about too many cookie exchanges, buffets and parties.
The young perspective is the novel's principal charm, but the tone is disrupted with too many overstretched exchanges anxious to tell us things we already know.
Perhaps a different script could have helped, but Mark Stanfield has written his characters too many cryptic exchanges that begin to sound like deadpan Monty Python routines as rewritten by Harold Pinter.
What WikiLeaks has contributed to society in a negative way is that nothing is sacred, except maybe a conversation with the water running (in case there are microphones bugged in your house or place of business), and in the future it's doubtful too many sensitive exchanges will take place as is the current practice.
"There weren't too many words exchanged, something to the effect of, 'Could you move your car?"' the brother said.
But I have witnessed too many of these exchanges with Muslim apologists, both in public and private, to ignore the general trend.
But when confidence ebbed and too many people tried to exchange their notes for gold, panic ensued and banks failed.
This was not to say that all the top editors and managers at the Times were entirely comfortable on the West Side; many of them still tended to regard it as alien, a place where people exchanged too many social kisses and held novel, not to say dangerous, ideas.
She let herself be drawn drawn into far too many of the little net exchanges that Radwanska relishes.
It's precisely these elements in Obamacare, he writes, that threaten to turn an IT mess into a policy disaster, because they have forced policymakers to build exchanges with too many moving parts, figure out sliding subsidies, and make sure to fine-tune things so that health insurers play ball and stay solvent.
