{"id":1107,"date":"2011-12-11T21:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T03:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2015-05-31T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T20:29:44","slug":"room-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Room: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Emma Donoghue, 2010, Audiobook read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer and Robert Petkoff, Hachette Audio<\/p>\n<p>This was very interesting to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0 The voices were very realistic and the way the story was written made it believable.<\/p>\n<p>My only criticism is that I felt the work was unfinished.\u00c2\u00a0 I think at least one additional chapter could have made it more complete.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the chapter or chapters would have\u00c2\u00a0fast forwarded\u00c2\u00a0fifteen years or so to\u00c2\u00a0view some of the longer-term after-effects of Jack&#8217;s and his mother&#8217;s incarceration.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, how did Jack and his mother accomplish some sort of separation after living together so closely for such an extended period?\u00c2\u00a0 These questions made it feel unfinished to me.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Emma Donoghue, 2010, Audiobook read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer and Robert Petkoff, Hachette Audio This was very interesting to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0 The voices were very realistic and the way the story was written made it believable. My only <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1107\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}