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The Boy Who Drew Monsters

October 22, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Jack Peter Keenan, a ten-year-old with Asperger’s, won’t go out of the house after a traumatic near-drowning at age seven.  But as Christmas approaches in his tenth year, he begins to draw strange pictures – pictures that bring his mother, father, and best friend into a strange world of imagination and deadly possibility out on the Maine coast. The Review: I’ve said this before: there is something inherently creepy-mystical about the coast of Maine.  The way the fog rolls in, […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Autism, BEA14, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Horror, Keith Donohue, Maine, Reviews, The Boy Who Drew Monsters

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

September 26, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Christopher, a young autistic boy, discovers his neighbor’s dog stabbed dead with a garden fork.  He sets out to discover who killed the beast and it ends up becoming the biggest adventure of his young life.  He travels to London, discovers a secret about his parents, solves the mystery, and writes it all down as a story in the end. The Review: I’m now somewhat sad that I didn’t catch the National Theatre stage adaptation of this […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Mystery • Tags: Autism, Children's Lit, Fiction, Literature, Mark Haddon, Mystery, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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