Kindle Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

Length: 240

Format: eBook
Price: Free via the Overdrive app

How I heard about it: It's on my list.

Basic Premise: 15-year-old Christopher Boone is "a mathematician with behavioural difficulties" whose discovery of the murder of the neighbor's dog sends him on a quest for the murderer. What he finds is more than he bargained for.

My Take: 6 out of 10 (scale here)
This was an interesting book. It was a lot like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close because the narrator was a young boy who was brilliant but had "behavioural difficulties." (I left the "u" in keeping with the British culture...another interesting thing about this book.) Both were trying to solve a mystery, but in this book, the mystery deals with the neighbor's dog, who has been killed with a pitchfork. Christopher obsesses over the death and decides to "detect" the murderer, but his detecting uncovers way more than just the death of the dog. I loved the plot twist, and that it happened mid-way through the novel instead of at the very end, so I had plenty of time to gain information. I can't say that it was terribly satisfactory (his parents - and mother in particular - are not great), but it was definitely different and entertaining!

List Progress:

1. I Am Malala by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai review here
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky review here
   
3. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood review here
4. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher review here
5. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
6. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving review here
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver review here
8.  Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah review here
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
10. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (read before I started blogging)
11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
12. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review here
13. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (read before I started blogging)
14. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
15. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer review here
16. Bossypants by Tina Fey review here
    
17. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
18. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (read before I started blogging)
19. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (read before I started blogging)
20. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen *abandoned*
21. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell review here
22. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
23. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling - can we have a moment for whoever created this list? "Harry Potter" is not a book. It's a series of books. Sheesh.
24. Looking for Alaska by John Green review here
25. The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak review here
26. The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini review here