The curious incident of the missing blog entry

Started this delightful book called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Which explains why I will not be able to regale you with the usual brilliant blog entry. [Ed: Dream on.]

There's an interesting snippet from an Observer review in the back cover.
"Gave me the rare, greedy feeling of: this is so good I want to read it all at once but I mustn't or it will be over too soon".
Funnily enough, this is the exact feeling I had while reading Midnight's Children.

My thoughts on this later.

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16 Jun
As promised, my thoughts on The Curious Incident.
First a plot summary.
This is a story about 15 year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant. A mathematician and logician extraordinaire, he has trouble comprehending human emotions and finds it easier to relate to animals, rather than human beings.
Confronted with a murdered dog in his neighbour's garden, he decides to do a Sherlock Holmes (that other great reasoning machine) and get to the bottom of the mystery. But what he ends up discovering is something more than just the identity of the killer.

The book is described from the point of view its narrator, Christopher, and that is its strength. We understand the workings of his mind, and why he behaves the way he does. From an external observer's viewpoint, his actions may seem bizarre, but there is a deeply logical explanation to it all. His fear of lying, of new places, of being lost in time are beautifully rationalized and that, more than its plot makes for interesting reading.

Definitely worth a read. (although I feel that the Observer's review was little more than promotional hyperbole.)