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** This review, as well as many more, can also be found on my blog, The Baking Bookworm (www.thebakingbookworm.blogspot.ca).

My Review: There has been quite a lot of talk surrounding this book and, honestly, when I picked it up at my local library I really didn't have any idea of what it was about. When I learned that it focused on a man who had Asperger tendencies (although this is never confirmed that he actually has Asperger's) I thought it sounded interesting. What I got as a quirky, cute read which unfortunately came off as a little unrealistic and a slightly mocking tone.

Don't get me wrong, Don was a good protagonist and his quirky characteristics totally made me love him. That said, for a man with (assumed) Asperger's I feel that he came off as more of a caricature with every stereotypical Asperger's symptom known to man. In fact, the image that almost immediately came to my mind as I was reading was my beloved Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory. And like Sheldon, Don seems to be at the far, far end of the Asperger's scale which makes him come off as more of a cliché. We all know that I loves me my Sheldon Cooper on Thursday nights but I guess I was expecting more than a TV comedic version of a person with Aspergers in this book.

I am not in line with the popular vote. This book has received very high ratings on GoodReads and Amazon and I did find it to be a light, easy read but not nearly as wonderful as I was hoping. I think that author was going for more of a romantic comedic feel for this book. There were numerous romantic comedy movie references and that this book was supposed to be in the same vein.
Unfortunately, for me anyway, reading about Don's repeated social faux pas never felt funny to me. Seeing how others mocked him bothered me and the fact that he considers himself to be 'an expert at being laughed at' made me sad. My heart went out to this man who knows he has odd behaviours, is overly scheduled and just generally 'different' from those around him. He was just a guy who was trying to fit in and find his own happiness.

This was a very easy read and well written and while I didn't like the mocking tone or the clichéd look at Asperger's, Don was a very likeable character and very easy to get behind. He's a great guy who just doesn't get social intricacies and he's brilliant (although why he doesn't realize he has Asperger's is beyond me). Rosie was the antithesis to dear ol' Don and she was refreshing but her very negative feelings towards her stepdad were based on a very simple omission decades before felt very silly and trite.

I would recommend this book to someone looking for a light, easy beach-type read. It's quirky, predictable and Don will be a character that I will remember for a long time.

My Rating: 3.5/5 stars


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The Rosie Project A Novel Graeme Simsion Books Reviews

This book was just okay. The story of geneticist Don Tillman who has Aspbergers. Highly functioning, but his life is organized down to the minute and he doesn't like any disruption or change to his routine. He is however, puzzled as to why he is still unattached. He longs for a wife and goes on a quest to find one. A crazy quest, involving a lengthy questionnaire that no woman could possibly answer to his satisfaction. Don is friends with the womanizing Gene and his long suffering wife, Claudia. They attempt to buffer him and steer him through the social pitfalls Don inevitably falls into.
Don then meets Rosie. A bartender and a student and they embark on a quest to find out who Rosie's real father is -- while getting to know each other.
I read this book in one afternoon. It was mildly entertaining, but that is about it. Probably not going to peruse the sequel. Not exactly chick-lit, but very close.
I purchased this book off for a local Mother’s Center book club I am in and I am so glad I did! The Rosie Project is about a Don Tillman who is a professor of genetics at a college, who decides he is done with dating and he wants to find a wife. he has a “quirky” personality and was never diagnosed with it but his friends, Claudia and Gene are pretty sure he has very high functioning form of Aspergers. He schedules his day down to the minute including how long dinner should take and his showers. When he decides to find a wife he comes up with this 30 page survey for women to fill out so it will weed out the ones that aren’t perfect for him therefore he doesn’t have to go on dates that will “waste his valuable time.” During this project he meets Rosie, who he mistaken as one of the ladies who was taking the survey. After one date, Rosie tells him that her mother slept with another man and the man that has raised her is not actually her father. That leads to a joint project called The Father Project that Rosie and Don meet up to find who her real father is and the relationship goes from there.

I loved this book and I am going to give it 5 stars! It is categorized as a romantic comedy book and it was just that. It wasn’t a super sappy romantic read which I think I really enjoyed. The situations that Don got himself into were just so funny and I laughed out loud many times throughout the novel.

The writer did an awesome job with character development which can kill the book or make the book. It wasn’t draggy, you found out who each character was and how they fit into the story and each one was memorable. My biggest complaint with books is when they mention a character and then later on mention them again and I have to flip back to figure out who the author is talking about and I did not have to do that with this book.

Even though there is a second book in this series it wraps the story up in the first so you really don’t have to read the second if you do not want to. The second book just goes into what happens next in their lives. I will be reading it soon, so keep a look out for “The Rosie Effect” review in the next month or two.

In conclusion, if you love situational comedy in your books and a little bit of a love story this novel is for you!
I’ve had this book sitting on my kindle shelf for 4 years, it must have been recommended to me or free on and I downloaded it, read a chapter and got bored. But last night, after seeing this book pop up on multiple occasions I decided to read it and I cannot believe I wasted 4 years not reading this book! I haven’t cried at a love story in a while but I was in tears more than one occasion with this book. I just only wish they had described his intimacy with Rosie in greater detail but I guess that may see irrelevant to most. Honestly this was a fantastic book and easily a favorite of mine as I would 100% read it again. I cannot wait till 2019 when the movie comes out. I highly recommend this book even to those who aren’t a fan of romance novels, this is in no way a conventional romance novel so trust me you’ll love it!
** This review, as well as many more, can also be found on my blog, The Baking Bookworm (www.thebakingbookworm.blogspot.ca).

My Review There has been quite a lot of talk surrounding this book and, honestly, when I picked it up at my local library I really didn't have any idea of what it was about. When I learned that it focused on a man who had Asperger tendencies (although this is never confirmed that he actually has Asperger's) I thought it sounded interesting. What I got as a quirky, cute read which unfortunately came off as a little unrealistic and a slightly mocking tone.

Don't get me wrong, Don was a good protagonist and his quirky characteristics totally made me love him. That said, for a man with (assumed) Asperger's I feel that he came off as more of a caricature with every stereotypical Asperger's symptom known to man. In fact, the image that almost immediately came to my mind as I was reading was my beloved Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory. And like Sheldon, Don seems to be at the far, far end of the Asperger's scale which makes him come off as more of a cliché. We all know that I loves me my Sheldon Cooper on Thursday nights but I guess I was expecting more than a TV comedic version of a person with Aspergers in this book.

I am not in line with the popular vote. This book has received very high ratings on GoodReads and and I did find it to be a light, easy read but not nearly as wonderful as I was hoping. I think that author was going for more of a romantic comedic feel for this book. There were numerous romantic comedy movie references and that this book was supposed to be in the same vein.
Unfortunately, for me anyway, reading about Don's repeated social faux pas never felt funny to me. Seeing how others mocked him bothered me and the fact that he considers himself to be 'an expert at being laughed at' made me sad. My heart went out to this man who knows he has odd behaviours, is overly scheduled and just generally 'different' from those around him. He was just a guy who was trying to fit in and find his own happiness.

This was a very easy read and well written and while I didn't like the mocking tone or the clichéd look at Asperger's, Don was a very likeable character and very easy to get behind. He's a great guy who just doesn't get social intricacies and he's brilliant (although why he doesn't realize he has Asperger's is beyond me). Rosie was the antithesis to dear ol' Don and she was refreshing but her very negative feelings towards her stepdad were based on a very simple omission decades before felt very silly and trite.

I would recommend this book to someone looking for a light, easy beach-type read. It's quirky, predictable and Don will be a character that I will remember for a long time.

My Rating 3.5/5 stars