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Title: Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publication Date: August 1st 2010 (first published January 1st 2010)
Format: Hardcover, 321 pages
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
Title: Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publication Date: August 1st 2010 (first published January 1st 2010)
Format: Hardcover, 321 pages
Rating:
Description:
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
Review
This is a kind of a hard book to review because you don't know what you can or cannot say about the story as you don't want to spoil it for people who have yet to read it. I saw this in a local charity shop for 50p... A hardcover. In "as new" condition for 50p?! You cannot turn that down. At this time I hadn't really heard anything online about it so it kind of sat on my shelf for the good part of a year and then while looking through Booktube I noticed that the book had started to pick up speed and I was like "I have this book!". I then went on to look it up on Goodreads and it spiked my interest so I then decided to dive right on in.
The story follows 5 year old Jack and his mother, only known as "Ma". Jack thinks that Room is their whole world and anything that he sees on Tv is not real, something Ma told him growing up to make it easier on him as they cannot leave Room. At times I got bored or annoyed with the book but the book is from the perspective of a 5 year old boy who knows nothing of the outside world so it can be forgiven. I kind of kept wondering if Jack was somewhere on the Autistic spectrum through out the book, especially near the end when he showed aversions to some things common with someone on the spectrum. But this could also be a product of his environment for so long and then it being flipped upside down overnight and learning that what Ma had told him about the outside world were somewhat lies. This book was heartbreaking and at times so captivating that I couldn't put it down and I am so glad that I decided to pick it up!
Quotes
Quotes
"It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.”
"Stories are a different kind of true.”
“I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down.
"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."
"Huh?"
"Scaredybrave."
"Scave."
Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.”
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