a fifo wife {reads: room by Emily Donoghue}

I read a lot. Its compensation for lonely nights. Its also good for my brain and all that relaxation stuff. Twenty minutes before bed that’s all I need. So I know I’m behind the times but this is what I have just finished reading Room by Emily Donoghue (it was published 2010). I have mixed feelings about the book. My feelings about it are mixed because I read it in a hurry because I was intrigued and wanted to know what happened in the end all while being annoyed that a five year old was narrating the story. The language is the same as what my three year old uses so perhaps that’s what annoyed me the most. Even in my off time I had the voice of a child in my head. Having said that its its nothing like I have read before so its worth a read and to make up your own mind.

It got a 3.95 (?) out of five on the website good reads so perhaps let that be your guide.

So this is the blurb for Room by Emma Donoghue

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.
Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

xxDeb