{"id":283,"date":"2014-03-20T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/20\/room-by-emma-donoghue\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:19","slug":"room-by-emma-donoghue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/room-by-emma-donoghue\/","title":{"rendered":"Room by Emma Donoghue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book about a room and the two people who live in the room: Jack and his mother. Although fiction, the idea is based on a true story. It is well-written, and the first half is unbelievably gripping; in fact, I was unable to put  it down. I loved the way it is written from the little boy, Jack&#8217;s, perspective and how  the actual situation, and the reality of the room, dawns but slowly on the reader; after all, this is  the only world Jack has ever known, and his mother has made sure that it  is a safe and happy world (within obvious limitations). The nail-biting tension of the first part works to a climax  and is then released, so it is understandable that the second part of  the book has to be different. I&#8217;m not sure that the second part is as  satisfying; perhaps it is not all that necessary; perhaps we do not  need things to be &#8217;rounded off&#8217;. However, disregarding certain reservations with the second half of the book, I would definitely  recommend <i>Room<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-bEG9yDpSpNw\/Uylc8QM4TCI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/fTIcmFgQBXg\/s1600\/emma+donoghue.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-bEG9yDpSpNw\/Uylc8QM4TCI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/fTIcmFgQBXg\/s1600\/emma+donoghue.jpeg\" height=\"199\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;The photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmadonoghue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emma Donoghue<\/a> is from www.telegraph.co.uk<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book about a room and the two people who live in the room: Jack and his mother. Although fiction, the idea is based on a true story. It is well-written, and the first half is unbelievably gripping; in fact, I was unable to put it down. I loved the way it is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/room-by-emma-donoghue\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}