A Compelling Read - Second Time Around

I must admit that I have very little experience in re-reading books. Most often when I finish a good book, I like to think about someone who would enjoy it and give it to them. Passing it along means that it can be doubly-enjoyed.

One book I decided not give away, though, is "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" which was first published in 2003. The author, Mark Haddon, take us to a place we can never visit on our own - inside the mind of a young man with Asperger's Syndrome.

Haddon manages to do this so effectively that reality, as Christopher John Francis Boone understands it, makes sense for us. The behaviour we would have dismissed as being bizarre has meaning within his experience, and his outlook on life challenges us to examine the assumptions on which we have based our own.

After a few years I have picked up this book for a re-read, and I find that it is still just as fresh and compelling as it was when I first received it. If you haven't found the bright red book with an upside down cutout of a dog on the cover yet, you are in for a treat.