Room

Thoughts   Room by Emma Donoghue / Little,Brown and Company ebook download to iPad, 2010, pages 832

Another rambling post since this is reviewed everywhere.    I don’t think I’ve seen any that hated it.   (Except on goodreads.com.)   I read this because it is our October Book Club* Choice.    Knowing I would have to buy it, I decided it was perfect as my official inaugural iPad bookread and I must say that the ebook reading experience is awesome.   I am very pleased.

However, this novel…   This is one of those times that I wonder about how I think about things and how wavering my critical eye is (or is not).    Did hype and overexposure have something to do with it?

I give this book 3 slices of pie.      Before anyone comments ‘sorry this one didn’t work out for you’, just know that 3 stars means that I liked it just fine, but it won’t be a favorite at the end of the year.

I keep writing and erasing and writing and highlighting and deleting all sorts of analysis attempts but it all comes down is that the book was fine, I found it thankfully not gutwrenchingly horrible but fresh in its presentation.   But I didn’t love it.

In fact, I almost gave up on it at one point** when I thought it was going to veer off into disaster and it didn’t quite, so I went ahead and finished it.    The ending was good.

I guess what I liked best is that it wasn’t overly sentimental or pushy.    I’ll shut up now.

I do want to read Slammerkin someday.

OH wait!  I do have one more thing to add.     While reading, I assumed (or maybe it WAS in the book – too lazy to check) that the setting was California – but upon finishing and realizing that Donoghue is not American and doh- the book is up for the Booker so that means non-American or ‘other side of the pond’ or something, right?  so I thought that WELL-DONE that it really could have been set almost anywhere.    Am I assuming right or wrong?   Maybe I should do some research.   nah…

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* My October Book Club meeting is not until 10/21.    I usually don’t read them this far in advance.

** When they let him go to the mall?! Are you freakin’ kidding me?   Too much.

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