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There was an incident, it was curious (and also at night) and then things really started to get interesting.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman

April 28, 2016 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

One of the benefits of dragooning your friends into doing the Cannonball Read with you is that they are another great source of book recommendations. I’m not sure when exactly Ale suggested The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time to me, but I have a feeling it was sometime around when she read Marcelo in the Real World last year. Both books feature protagonists with Asperger’s Syndrome, and Ale suggests Marcelo to people who enjoyed Curious Incident. Audible did me a favor […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Asperger's Syndrome, autism, banned book, banned books, challenged book, jeff woodman, Mark Haddon, Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman, read harder challenge, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Asperger's Syndrome, autism, banned book, banned books, challenged book, jeff woodman, Mark Haddon, Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman, read harder challenge, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time ·
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Curiouser and curiouser…

February 18, 2015 by Lynn 2 Comments

I spied The Curious Incident on the sale shelf at my local library’s bookshop (aren’t those the best inventions?) and picked it up, not for me, but for a friend. (The same one who gave me The Brothers K and Shantaram. He’s also just given me The Beach, which is, in his words, “trippy”. In other words, he reads decent literature.) Without knowing anything about it, I proudly delivered my find, and a week later he called to tell me he’d finished, it was overwhelmingly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: autism, Mark Haddon

Lynn's CBR7 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: autism, Mark Haddon ·
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