I’ve got a couple of weeks off. It’s not all that unusual, but it’s not all that common either. So I am writing. Sort of. I have the better part of a rough draft, which is the easy part for me. I need to add a snappy opening, slap in a few transitions here and there, and viola! it will be ready for that dread 2nd Draft. Then I go back and make sure everything makes sense and start to re-write a bit of the dull parts and try to pour some life into them. Editing has always been my…
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Room by Emma Donoghue
Room is read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff , and Suzanne Toren and they do a very good job of pulling you into the story of a woman and her five year old son who has spent his whole life in a small shack he knows as Room. Jack has names for everything in Room. Rug, Bed, TV, Skylight, Wall, Floor, and so on for the small assortment of items that fill the near identical days of the lives. Told from Jack’s point of view, we experience the world as he sees and hears it-or as he…