Jenna Hymes

Oh boy, I'm a week behind on this blog. Agh! I feel a little out of practice with consciousness reports now. I've been sick on and off and ON again for about two weeks now, which has resulted in me feeling a little hazy a lot of the time. This weekend I had a hacking cough that would not quit. I felt like a 19th century tragic heroine with consumption. Or some such disease. But I am feeling better today. Still coughing, but out and about.

The importance of your body really comes through when you're sick.

Here is my book review of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I wrote it as a review for New York Magazine. Let me know what you think!

Under the staircase leading up to my boyfriend’s old apartment in Manhattan, the apartment tenants would leave things they no longer wanted, but thought someone else could possibly use; pots and pans, shoe racks, but most often books. My boyfriend deemed this place the “Under the Stair Store” and it was always exciting to come into his building, and before ascending the stairs up to Apartment number 5, stop to peruse the goods available at the “Under the Stair Store”. I tell you this because I one day found Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time under the stairs, and I will admit that had it not been sitting there, for free, amongst a pile of other books, I would never have picked this book up.