When tasting wine or food there will be a palate cleanser between courses. This might be something simple like a cracker or a glass of water. The reason is simple, before you try something complex you want to be sure that the previous flavors are gone.
I do that with some books. Many of the books I read are rather dark and between books quite often I will read lighter books or some periodicals. I say some because I'm rather tired of the constant whining and sniping in the liberal and conservative magazines I've read.
My current palate cleanser is "Love Bites" by Christopher Moore. It has vampire kitties, an emo/goth chick, a gay cop lecturing a young gay kid, and the other zany Moore characters standard for his books. It's a great cleanser between the darker Vachss's books that I've been reading lately.
There's enough darkness that I've seen, I can only take limited amounts of it in entertainment before it starts affecting me. That's why I read palate cleansers. Try one, it might do you a world of good.
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