By Mark Haddon
Discussion led by T. Taylor
"[Our protagonist is] a literalist by neurology." Debbie Lee Wasselman
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." the literary character Sherlock Holmes
Hello book mavens,
The time is upon us when we look with excitement to the coming year of book club titles chosen by eleven intrepid members of the group. Perhaps bravest of all is Trudy Taylor, who not only volunteered to monitor the first discussion, but chose a most unusual story and narrator for our consideration.
Highly regarded and much discussed since its publication in 2004, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time draws us into the strange mindscape of one Christopher John Francis Boone, a mildly autistic 15 year old British subject bent on discovering the identity of the person (or persons) responsible for the death of a neighborhood dog named Wellington. What ensues may be one of the oddest gumshoe yarns written in English in the past century.
So, it seems we'll kick off the reading year in enjoyable, if bizarre fashion with a fiction designed to give us a new perspective on the anomalies of the human brain and what they can mean for communities and families encountering them.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." the literary character Sherlock Holmes
Hello book mavens,
The time is upon us when we look with excitement to the coming year of book club titles chosen by eleven intrepid members of the group. Perhaps bravest of all is Trudy Taylor, who not only volunteered to monitor the first discussion, but chose a most unusual story and narrator for our consideration.
Highly regarded and much discussed since its publication in 2004, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time draws us into the strange mindscape of one Christopher John Francis Boone, a mildly autistic 15 year old British subject bent on discovering the identity of the person (or persons) responsible for the death of a neighborhood dog named Wellington. What ensues may be one of the oddest gumshoe yarns written in English in the past century.
So, it seems we'll kick off the reading year in enjoyable, if bizarre fashion with a fiction designed to give us a new perspective on the anomalies of the human brain and what they can mean for communities and families encountering them.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
