Just finished
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. Like "
Movement: A Short Story about Autism in the Future" by MobileRead's own Nancy Fulda, it's told in the first person from the point of view of the autistic, and like that story, it takes place in the near future where a new procedure promises to reverse the effects of autism. But here the similarities end. Fulda's Hannah was a very different and far more socially impaired person than Moon's Lou Arrendale, and unlike Lou, Hannah was not being threatened with loss of employment if she refused the treatment (indeed, she was too impaired for employment). The protagonists in the stories also eventually chose very different options with very different outcomes. I highly recommend both. It took a while in my opinion for
The Speed of Dark to get going, but once drawn in, it was spellbinding. Will you like the ending? Hard to say. Some critics have called it a cop-out. I did find Nancy Fulda's resolution to her short story more satisfying.
And now, because the last few books I've been reading have been a bit on the heavy side, I thought I'd give myself a little break before tackling this month's MobileRead Book Club selection,
Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji, so I cracked open another one of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason mysteries:
The Case of the Curious Bride. After all; there's nothing quite like a good murder to cheer the spirits and revive the soul. BTW, my Kindle home screen incorrectly renders his name as "Earl" Stanley Gardner. Let's hear it for the wonders of spell-checkers!