I just finished David Copperfield (which is beautiful btw) and it was quite an epic journey. However, I’m a little exhausted now lol and would like to read something nice and easy to “cleanse my palate.” Any suggestions? I’m open to any kind of book, any style.
by dhowl
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I always use Agatha Christie for palate cleansers. Any of them would work but how about Hallowe’en Party in honor of the day.
All Systems Red,
Calahans Cross Time Saloon,
All Creatures Great and Small,
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,
Up the Down Staircase,
Going Postal,
The Wee Free Men,
A Psalm for the Wild Built,
Gift of the Magi,
I found The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman to be a really nice palate cleanser. Self-contained, fairly short, reasonable pace and I really enjoy Gaiman’s prose. Hard to put in a box genre-wise – somewhere along the fantasy/magical realism spectrum, with horror elements (although definitely not super scary).
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn, short, funny and unsettling!
Anything by Wodehouse.
The Monk and Robot novellas by Becky Chambers. There are 2 so far. They’re really short, but very cozy reads.
“Now is not the time to panic” by Kevin Wilson
Falling back on smaller simple fantasy works for me. The Hobbit, Earthsea, etc.