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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Stories: All-New Tales
Lawrence Block, Richard Adams, Roddy Doyle, Jeffery Deaver, Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, Diana Wynne Jones, Peter Straub, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Swanwick, Tim Powers, Joanne Harris, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, Stewart O'Nan, Jeffrey Ford, Walter Mosley,
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman Every book I read from Gaiman just makes me want to read more. It's going to be a sad day when I have caught up and have to wait for his next release. ANANSI BOYS was a lighter, more fun read than even some of his children's stories, and I thought that it was a great retelling of some old folktales. Gaiman's take on familial relations and siblings and love were fun and imaginative and kept me reading. To be honest, after AMERICAN GODS, I put off reading this, as Anansi was in that too, and I didn't want to mar my experience with that book. This was a stand-alone though, and it wouldn't have mattered if I had read the other or not. I needed something fun and light and not too deep to keep my spirits up this week and this did the trick. Well done, Neil, well done.