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Final Book in Tillman Series Swings Back From Second Book Syndrome

The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion

July 28, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Here’s a link to my second review in this series: The Rosie Effect. I flat out disliked the second book and was flabbergasted that Simsion changed things up to having Rosie and Don move to New York and having Don and Rosie act of character. Thank goodness that is all fixed in the third book with us following Don and Rosie eleven years after the birth of their son Hudson. Simsion also kept force fitting in the character of Gene (who I disliked) and we find […]

The Rosie Project – Charming new take on a classic “will they won’t they”

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

February 9, 2019 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

The monthly selection for my local library book club was new to me, and I went into it with an arched eyebrow and a prepared groan: a romance. Not my chosen genre, and one often prone to crazy plot climaxes and “will they won’t they but you know they will” feet dragging. So, I entered prepared and preordained not to like this book, but was pleasantly surprised to find it charming and a new take on an old standard. Through subtle plot devices we are, […]

My fluffy summer read

September 3, 2018 by llp Leave a Comment

I am pretty sure I saw this book recommended on Twitter or something similar, something associated with CBR. I don’t read very much romance, but always want to try something new to me and this seemed like a good summer fluff book. This book was so fun! The Rosie Project was published in 2013, so I assume lots of people have already read this and I am just late, but I am glad to have found it now. Our lead is an Australian genetics professor […]

Like a bad sitcom

July 7, 2015 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

I don’t know why I read this book. I didn’t particularly like the first one. And the only part I did like about the first one — the character of Rosie, who’s a little goofy but overall smart and warm — is barely even in this book. This book is pretty much ALL Don, and his obnoxious friend Gene, and the two of them make me crazy. “I thought you were happy about having a baby.’ I was happy in the way that I would be happy […]

Maybe I should launch a husband project…

February 3, 2015 by Lynn 2 Comments

I didn’t love this book. I know it’s a Cannonball favorite. It’s an Amazon favorite, too, with over 4,000 five star reviews. And it’s about love, and finding love when and where you least expect it, and since I’m a sucker for love stories, you’d think I’d love this love story. But I just…didn’t. After eleventy million reviews, I’m sure that you know the story. Don Tillman is a professor of genetics at a university in Australia. While it’s never directly acknowledged, the assumption is […]

You can’t go through life not listening to music

June 25, 2014 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

The problem with reading books quickly is that I am often left with little to say when review time comes around, because I haven’t spent days or in the cases of some books – weeks, thinking about my feelings and reactions to the work. Instead, I’m going to make arguments against the detractions I’ve read about The Rosie Project which will hopefully help illuminate for you why it is a four star book for me. As this book is pretty well reviewed around these parts […]

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