Author - Emma Donoghue
No. of Pages - 336
Year of Publication - 2010
Rating - ❤️❤️❤️
One of the many things that this book taught me is that—it is not important to categorize books in genres. This book wasn’t a romance quite evidently. It contained emotions and sentiments showcasing the mother-son relationship in a poignant manner along with thrills throughout the plot but yet, I cannot label it as a 'thriller'.
No. of Pages - 336
Year of Publication - 2010
Rating - ❤️❤️❤️
One of the many things that this book taught me is that—it is not important to categorize books in genres. This book wasn’t a romance quite evidently. It contained emotions and sentiments showcasing the mother-son relationship in a poignant manner along with thrills throughout the plot but yet, I cannot label it as a 'thriller'.
I have a habit of reading the book and then watching its movie adaptation to compare them and 99.9% times, I prefer the book over the movie. No big discovery, right? But something really strange happened in case of this book—I liked the movie a little bit more than the book. I know many of you might say that it cannot happen and I totally agreed with it till I watched the adaptation of this book.
To be honest, I didn’t get too emotional while reading the book but while watching the movie, there were few moments when my eyes were moist.
It might be the innocence of Jack, a five year old boy who has never seen the Outside world and lives confined in a Room, rather a shed, with his Ma. Or it might be the hardships and struggles of his mother to groom him and give him the best that he deserves. Or it might just be the astounding performance of the actors. But anyhow, the movie was brilliant.
Coming back to the book, all in all I liked it a lot, majorly because of the unique plot idea and narration from the point of view of a five years old kid. I really hoped that it’d make me cry but I seriously have no idea why it couldn’t. I do not see any valid reason behind it. But as always, I’d suggest you to read the book before watching the movie. It always makes the intricacies even more interesting and heart-touching.
Favourite excerpt:
“I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there’s only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
Favourite excerpt:
“I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there’s only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
P.S. I discovered that sometimes books cannot but movies can lead to catharsis.
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
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