By Matthew E. Milliken
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Aug. 12, 2016
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Cheeps and Chirps — belated July 2016 Democratic National Convention edition!
August 12, 2016‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ launches an unlikely protagonist onto a heroic journey
August 9, 2016By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Aug. 9, 2016
Last month, my Sibling-in-Law’s family was once again kind enough my parental unit and I to join them for part of their annual summer visit to Ocean City, Md. This year, fortunately, I wasn’t suffering from dental pain, and no violence to books was inflicted during the trip.
Despite — or more likely because of — the lack of suffering and drama, I managed to zip through a novel during my time on the beach. I very much enjoyed consuming The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the 2003 bestseller by the British author, illustrator and poet Mark Haddon.
The narrator of The Curious Incident introduces himself this way on the second page of the book:
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057.
Eight years ago, when I first met Siobhan, she showed me this picture
and I knew it meant “sad,” which is what I felt when I found the dead dog.
