"The Rosie Project"

Many thanks to my friend who recommended "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion.  What a fun read!

We're introduced to Don Tillman, a brilliant genetics professor with inadequate social skills.  His life is organized to the minute so he knows when to shop, when to prepare meals, and when to sleep.  When Don decides he wants a wife, it becomes "The Wife Project" and, with the help of his friends, Gene and Claudia, he develops a questionnaire to find his suitable life partner.

Along the not so smooth path to finding a wife he is introduced to Rosie by Gene -- not a candidate for the wife project --  but they develop a friendship and "The Father Project" begins.  What follows is the "Great Cocktail Night," the "New York Adventure," and the "Reform Don Project" as well as "The Rosie Project."  All of these events turn Don's organized life upside down and along the way he makes some very interesting discoveries.

Thanks to my husband for putting up with my reading this book in bed and insisting that he listen to parts of it as well as putting up with my waking him up when I was laughing in bed!  I am looking forward to the sequel, "The Rosie Effect."  It's really hard to beliee that this book is Australian Simsion's first novel.  It's also been made into a movie!  pazt