Room

Take me home!
by Emma Donoghue | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780316196949 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 8/9/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Friday, August 9, 2019
I found this softcover in this Little Free Library in Salem NH while dropping off some books of my own, and nabbed it for another release copy.

The story is fascinating - a child's-eye view of a situation that (it soon becomes apparent) is a nightmare, yet one from which the child's mother has managed to shield him. But for how long?

This was a thoroughly harrowing story, yet it manages to present an awe-inspiring amount of strength-in-adversity on the part of Jack's mother. And the second half of the book goes into an area seldom addressed, the trauma of the survivors of such a nightmare.

I don't want to give too many details, as part of the fascination of the story is in discovering them for one's self, but I definitely got caught up in the story and ached for the characters. Strongly recommended.

[There's a 2015 film adaptation. And the TV Tropes page on the book and the film has some entertaining tidbits.]

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at LFL - City Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, August 11, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (8/11/2019 UTC) at LFL - City Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I left this book in the Little Free Library beside City Hall near the rail-trail; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in NH here.]

*** Released for the 2019 One-Word Title release challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2019 Movie release challenge. ***

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