The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

(This review first appeared in August 2003) Rating:  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.  Doubleday (2002), 240 pages. This book is narrated by an autistic boy who discovers his neighbor’s dog has been murdered.  As he...
The Book of Lost Things

The Book of Lost Things

(This review first appeared in April 2008) Rating:  The Book of Lost Things, by John Connelly.  Washington Square Press (2007), 480 pages. This book is actually alive. It is a book in which books talk (and shout, and throw themselves about), and the stories...
A Wolf at the Table

A Wolf at the Table

Rating:  A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, by Augusten Burroughs.  St. Martin’s Press (2008), 256 pages. I was wrong about Augusten. He has proven beyond a doubt that he did have another award-winning book in him after all. I had declared him...