Book: Skippy Dies
Author: Paul Murray
Reviewer: Jamie Bradway, Preservation Librarian, NCSU Libraries

As the title suggests, some pretty horrible things happen in this book. That these things happen in a boarding school (to kids) would normally be enough to turn me off of what is, essentially, an entertainment. But there are also some very beautiful things written in this novel; even some very funny things. It’s the book I needed to read to remind myself that novels should be more than mere entertainments.