Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Rosie Project

"The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion was super cute and utterly charming, it completely won me over by the first page. Don Tillman is a professor of genetics and obviously has some form of Asperger's, even though he hasn't been diagnosed as such. If you watch "Big Bang Theory", think Sheldon. Don is very much like Sheldon, but he wants a female companion and thus begins what he calls The Wife Project. In order to weed out unsuitable candidates, he devises a 16 page questionnaire. His friends, Gene and Claudia, are helping him out, giving him advice and tips. Gene sends Rosie to him one day, and after a few minutes into their first date, it becomes clear to Don that Rosie is completely unsuitable for a long term companion, despite the fact that he finds her very attractive and enjoys being in her company. Rosie needs help, though. She would like to find her biological father, and Don agrees to help her collect DNA samples from the likely candidates and test them. It was such a sweet story, I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the sequel.

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