The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.