Recommended to you by the librarians of the Société de Lecture
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark HADDON, 2003. (LHC 6718)
The narrator, Christopher Boone, is a 15-year-old suffering from a form of autism. He hates the colors yellow and brown and cannot support anyone touching him. When he feels anxious, he calms himself by solving complex mathematical problems. Single-minded and persevering, Christopher is determined to discover who murdered the neighbor’s dog, Wellington. He is puzzled by the behavior of people around him and cannot accept anything less than total honesty. With rare insight and empathy, Haddon portrays the mind of a disturbed young man. His story is funny, tragic and wise, but above all, deeply moving. Winner of the Whitbread Prize.
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The Société de Lecture is exceptional in many ways, including how it selects new books – a responsibility that, for many decades, has been entrusted to a Reading Committee of 12 to 15 members of the Société. Each committee member reads three to five books per month, and writes short critical reviews of each one, before collectively deciding which ones to purchase for the library. Around 30 of these reviews are published in each issue of our monthly magazine, Plume au Vent. This group of dedicated volunteers find time in their busy schedules to perform this demanding task, with equal parts enthusiasm and modesty.
Reading Committee members:
Christian Buenzod (Chairman), Bruno Desgardins, Pascale Dhombres, Jacques-Simon Eggly, Catherine Fauchier-Magnan, Fadiah Haller-Assaad, Tatiana Hervieu-Causse, Hélène Leibkutsch, Sharon Mordasini, Soussan Raadi-Djalili, Jean-Bernard Rondeau, Petr Shmatenko, Dominique Thouvenin and our librarians Maxime Canals, Christiane Bernadac and Marie Merminod