That is what I'm reading right now. It's by Jonathon Safran Foer, who I suppose wrote a doozy of a first novel called Everything Illuminated. I read about this book yesterday a.m. before work during my brief a.m. perusal of favorite news sites, and it really caught my interest - 9 year old boy whose dad died in 9/11 and the book is mostly about him going around New York looking for clues about his dad's life.

This book is different than others I've read in that it has pictures in it. Little representations of things that going on in the book. There's a part where a boy and an old man are talking in a bedroom, and a flock of birds flies by next to the window, and when you turn the page, there's a 2 page spread of blurry flying birds. Another part, he talks about how he misses his dad, who died in the Towers, and then when you turn the page, there's a picture of a person falling from the Towers. In another part, he goes into an art store, and talks to the manager about pens, and she is showing him the little pad next to the colored pens where people tested the pens - some people wrote their names, some people wrote "green" (in green) - there are three pages depicting this pad, in color.

It's kind of fun. I think that some of the pictures (like the doorknobs that show up randomly without any association to the words) have clues in them. Clues about what the boy will find out about his dad.

I highly recommend the book. I checked it out of the library yesterday at 5:20, and I am now 2/3rds of the way through it.

(I will read cases today - i will read law review articles today - i will not read my novel - i will not read my novel)

posted by Zuska @ 9:33 AM

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