Thanks for the RABCK!

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Enjoy, Cindy!

Came in the mail today. Thanx a bunch!!

Well, that was different.

On it's way to chicvolley99

Received from ciloma . Thanks!

What an interesting book. I had no idea what to expect throughout the book, and the narrative is spectacular.

Am going to send this in the Animal bookbox. Please enjoy! (Or don't, should you choose to pass this book along!)

Chosen from the Animals Bookbox.

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Adding to the restarted ABC Bookbox.

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I'm claiming this nearly ten-year-old book from the Already Been Crossed bookbox!

I adored this book when I first read it (and the audio version narrated by Jeff Woodman, is also excellent). I had no idea it would go the way it did; I'd only heard about the "boy finds dead dog, tries to solve mystery" aspect, but this story manages to be both realistic and surprising. Seeing the world through Christopher's eyes was fascinating, sometimes pathetic and often scary; and funny, too, as when he discusses metaphors: "I think that it [a metaphor] should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining an apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about." I note that Terry Pratchett's character, Death, also refers to metaphors as lies, so Christopher is in good company...

Even though the book was in Christopher's words it also conveyed how disturbing he could be to others; much of the pathos of the story came from this, as I empathized with him and with the person who was terrified to encounter him standing in her yard in the dark. And then when - but that would be spoiling it. I was delighted that nobody'd spoiled the story for me so I won't say any more; but this is a very good book indeed.

[There's an entertaining TV Tropes page for this book, which opens in the same style as the book itself! Do beware of spoilers, though; most are masked, but some may not be.]

I plan to leave this book in or near Yalla Grill on Merrimack St. in Methuen while stopping by for dinner tonight; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in MA here.]

*** Released for the 2019 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2019 Theater release challenge. ***