Room

As I read the first sections of the book I was obsessive! There was an evening when to my shock I checked the time due to my persistent yawning and discovered it was 4 AM. The author was able to draw a perfect picture of the surroundings, circumstance and the characters within the novel. Not only could I imagine these people but I understood their feelings and thoughts. I loved that this book was about the people and not their traumatic events. There were however a few downfalls which lowered my rating to 3 stars. Throughout the novel there Jack adopts a “baby talk” way of labelling items that I found incongruent with his other verbal skills as highlighted within the story. Unfortunately somewhere along the line the page turning slowed and my interest wavered. I cannot put my finger on why the pace of the novel declined. I wish that I could have remained as engaged with the last third of the story as I was with the beginning. I had the luxury of watching the film this evening as well. Much like the book I truly applauded some elements and disliked some choices that were made. The habit of labelling items that I found so annoying on the written page translated beautifully in the screen version and made perfect sense. Perhaps Emma Donoghue envisioned it that way all along. Definitely a book worth investigating and an author I will look for again.