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A page-turner, I read it in two days. Everything is told from the kids perspective.... Seeing the world through his eyes was incredibly interesting. Terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. (  ) enlasnubess | Oct 2, 2023 |  Absolutely fabulous. Donoghue nailed the voice of Jack. ( ) mskrypuch | Sep 24, 2023 | This is a book you NEVER forget. It's hard to read, but its story of love in a time of trial is superlative. ( ) sharishaw49 | Sep 20, 2023 | A very powerful story about the relationship between a boy and his mother. The mother has been held prisoner by Old Nick, a man who kidnapped her 7 years prior. Her son Jack, a child conceived in rape, lives the first five years of his life in a single room with his mother in a shed in Old Nick's backyard. Then they escape, and Jack has to learn about the world outside Room, the place he has spent his entire life. The book is written from Jack's POV in his very idiosyncratic language. It's a heart touching and powerful book. (  ) dogboi | Sep 16, 2023 | Given that I have an entire shelf for adult literature with child protaganists, the concept of a child narrator was not the novel part of this book for me. But what really stood out was that Donoghue made Jack a very normal five year old. He was in no way a prodigy or wise beyond his years. Instead, we were given access to the routine-oriented rigidity of a five year old. The description of Jack's life inside of Room was interesting - with his routines and his properly named personified objects and his perceptions of events that were much darker than he could understand. However, what made the book was his perception of the world following his rescue and his adjustment to the world outside. My only objection was the occasional detour into preachy land - Jack notes how tired adults are in the outside world and how they don't have enough time to spend with their kids and I wonder what the author's trying to imply? That women would be happier if they were locked in a room with nothing to do other than play with their kids? I don't think that's her point, but it comes uncomfortably close to reading that way. ( ) settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |
Room is disturbing, thrilling, and emotionally compelling. Emma Donoghue has produced a novel that is sure to stay in the minds of readers for years to come. This is a truly memorable novel, one that can be read through myriad lenses — psychological, sociological, political. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live. the book’s second half is less effective than its first. Perhaps this is inevitable given the changed circumstances of the protagonists. The walls that enclosed them also intensified their drama.  Wrenching, as befits the grim subject matter, but also tender, touching and at times unexpectedly funny. Donoghue's great strength -- apart from her storytelling gift -- is her emotional intelligence. We get just enough information to feel uncomfortable -- and therefore, to question our assumptions about how family life ought to be; and to know that life will always be an unequal struggle. Belongs to Publisher SeriesPiper (30981) Has the adaptationAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape. No library descriptions found. 
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