Books Tasted - Everything bookly (and a few other things)

Maybe mysteries are not my thing. I've never really been interested in picking up a mystery, but decided to branch out on my last library foray and picked up The Minotaur by Barbara Vine, a pen name of writer Ruth Rendell.

I need to take a break from the Tudors. I really want to go check out The Children of Henry VIII, but no! hold yourself back, Beth!

Augusten Burroughs has written a slew of memoirs, which run the gamut from poignantly hilarious to dark and unsettling (to use that word again). His most recent book A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of my Father falls into the latter category.

I love Neil Gaiman. He has an amazing imagination and is able to take our everyday world and twist, and suddenly there are all kinds of fantasy elements tied to the fringe. He is usually very effective at drawing the reader into the story by making his main characters part of the "normal" world, and having them sucked into the fantastical as unsuspectingly as we readers are. (Everything that was wrong with The Somnambulist, Gaiman does right.)