Room, Emma Donoghue
number of voters: 7
percentage of voters who finished the book: 100
highest rating: 9.75
lowest rating: 4
average rating: 7.393
*****
This month we read Book. Some people call Book “Room,” but that doesn’t make any sense. Book is not a room; Book is Book.
Book is a story. It’s a story about Real things but it is not Real.
The story is told by five-year-old Jack, who lives in Room with his Ma. Jack has lived in Room with his Ma his whole life because Jack was born in Room. Jack was born in Room because Old Nick keeps Ma locked in Room.
This is the part of the story where some people decide they don’t want to read Book. That’s because even though Book is not actually Real it is a lot like Real and sometimes Real is bad. (It helps some people if they know nothing really bad ever happens to Jack.)
Some people don’t like Book because they think Jack is annoying. That is Real, too, because sometimes five year olds are annoying.
One of the best parts of Book is what happens in the second half of the story. It would ruin it to tell. But if you are brave enough to read Book and not too annoyed by Jack, you might be surprised at how Book makes you think about Life in a whole new way.
