Recommended Book: A Curious Incident…
A curious incident of the dog in the night-time
By: Mark Haddon
This is a great novel starts with a death of a dog belonged to a neighbor that Christopher, an autistic 15 year old, dedided to investigate to find who the murderer was. This led to revelations which are surprising and sad.
I think the title of this novel comes from a phrase in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of Bakersville (Christopher reviewed some facts of this Sherlock Holmes’ murder investigation). Christopher likes Sherlock Holmes because he was so logical but doesn’t like the author Sir Arthur who believed in the supernatural.
Christopher loves dogs, has a pet rat Toby, wants to be an austronaut, has a videographic memory, is brilliant in math (knows prime numbers up to a very big number) and science, always honest (because he cannot make up stories to lie).
He hates yellow and brown, loves red, doesn’t like crowds (and strangers) and always has big problem recognizing human emotions and sentences with metaphors (similes are ok).
It is an easy reading with plain English, and Christopher loves to explain things so we can understand.
