The moment I started reading this book it got me hooked. I didn't get it the first few pages but I knew there's something about the story that kept me reading and reading it until I wanted to finish it in one sitting. A very beautiful read. It's different but it's real, it's from a child's point of view that you wonder if after reading this book the author would reveal that the story is based from a real life story she's known. Yes, it's that good I wanted it to be true. I highly recommend Room.
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Here are the plays they made while in Room (I included this for mom and child, instead of just leaving them on tv the whole day):
Hum (a game that doesn't need mouth, whoever wins get kisses)
Labyrinth (a toilet roll insides taped together in tunnels that twist lots of ways. Bouncy ball loves to get lost in labyrinth and hide.)
Fort (made of cans and vitamin bottles, we build him bigger everytime we have an empty.)
Track
Trampoline (it's just me that bounces on Bed)
Simon Says
Corpse (that's lying like starfish with floppy toenails, floppy belly button, floppy tongue, floppy brain even (and not move to win).
Orchestra (where we run around seeing what noises we can bang out of things)
Catch (using beach ball)
My favorite lines...
Sarcasm, when he say the really opposite with a voice that's all twisty.
Huge. Enormous. Hugeormous. That's word sandwich when we squish two together.
Ma's laughing and crying at the same time, it must be happysad.
World is suddener than we fancy it.
Everything in the world belongs to somebody. Except the things we all share, like the rivers and the mountains.
It's gathering up all those scary thoughts you don't need anymore, and throwing them out as bad dreams.
Ma: It's not a rule, just a convention.
Jack: What's a -?
Ma: A silly habit everybody has.
I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.
It was interesting. That's what you say when you don't like something.
Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.
It's the coolest thing and scary as well. Coolary, that's a word sandwich.
Everybody's got a few different selves.
"The Soul selects her own Society-Then-shuts the Door-"
You had to change to survive.