Reading Together 2008-2009

The Reading Together Project proudly announces the book selection for 2008-2009 as "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. Join Lane Community College students, staff and members of the local community as we experience the adventure of Christopher Boone.

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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He related well to animals but has no understanding of man's emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years." --from the publisher

"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." --The Boston Globe

"Moving...think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sack's real-life stories." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy." --Ian McEwan, author of Atonement

"Brilliant...Delightful...Very moving, very plausible--and very funny." --Oliver Sacks