No Room for Improvement - It's Already Perfect
Advantages: Spectacular - shocking and endearing in equal measure
Disadvantages: I wanted it to go on for a few hundred more pages
From Womb to Room Ma loves Jack and Jack loves Ma. Each is the centre of the other's world which might seem natural for a mother and her 5-year old son but in this case it's more than just a cliché. They are each other's only company with the exceptio ...
 koshkha 30.12.2010 · Read full review
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Rises above the voyeuristic
Advantages: Well written and sensitively portrayed
Disadvantages: None
There is one narrator in Room; a boy called Jack and everything that takes place is told entirely through Jack's innocent five year old eyes. Jack's world is Room , and inside Room everything is safe and familiar to him. His friends are the objects ...
dee7778 17.12.2011 · Read full review
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Born into a world the size of a room
Advantages: Very well created characters and cleverly written
Disadvantages: Could be upsetting for some
Room by Emma Donaghue ISBN: 9780330519014 I was a bit late coming to this book but read several reviews on various reviews sites about how great it was. My copy is the hardback version and I was lucky enough to pick it up through the Bookcrossing group ...
catsholiday 05.11.2012 · Read full review
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Make Room in your life for this...
Advantages: Strong, Believable characters, Compelling storyline, Price at the moment
Disadvantages: none for me!
Introduction The first review I read about the book "Room" was late last year when a fellow dooyooer wrote about it, there was something about the review which resonated in me and finding myself intrigued I made a mental note to at some point buy t ...
Drewster-Rooster 24.02.2011 · Read full review
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Clinging to the Light.
Advantages: Engrossing read.Beautifully written. Superb characterisation.
Disadvantages: none.
If I had too choose one book to sum up my favorite of the year then this is the book I’d choose. It’s not necessarily the best fiction, not have I read anything else by the author before. I even chose to read it mainly because I needed a book for a train ...
Sam-I-Am 23.01.2012 · Read full review
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