“It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.” — Emma Donoghue, Room
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“It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” — Emma Donoghue, Room

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‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy and Her Bird Fly High in a Tender but Overlong Grief Drama

Following the death of her beloved father, a Cambridge academic decides to raise a goshawk in director Philippa Lowthorpe's adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Helen Macdonald.

The Hollywood Reporter

Years ago I LOVED the book ROOM by Emma Donoghue. It blew me away, I cried lots and multiple times during my reading - and never read anything by Donoghue again. Why? Don't know.

Just some weeks ago I picked up The Pull Of The Stars in the library, a novel where we get to spend just a few days during the spanish flu 1918 with nurse Julia Power in a war battled hospital where she's responsible for the maternity ward [or rather: closet] 1/x

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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (EPUB)
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🚪💙 What if the only world you knew was a single room? Emma Donoghue’s Room tells a poignant story of love, survival, and hope. Discounts & free downloads at Hearts in Prosa. 🌱📖 #Room #EmmaDonoghue #Survival #FreeBooks

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Room

Room tells the story of Jack, a five-year-old boy who has spent his entire life confined in a small room with his mother, Ma. For Jack, this room is his world: a safe and familiar space where he pl…

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Random conversation prompt for #Bookstodon : what authors have a range to their writing that gives you whiplash? Inspired by my 9yo daughter currently loving The Lotterys Plus One, a children's book by #EmmaDonoghue , who I knew about only for her definitely-not-a-children's-book Room. #LewisCarroll also seems like a good answer given his mix of logic monographs and the Alice stories; I suspect there are a few writers of academic backgrounds with incongruent bibliographies. @bookstodon
Emma Donoghue: ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull blew my tiny mind’

The Room author on adoring Alan Garner, inspirational Sylvia Plath and the wisdom of Terry Pratchett

The Guardian
I'm amused that my mother and I came home with the same book to read. #AnneLister #ElizaRaine #EmmaDonoghue #LesbianBooks

If Miss Raine should die while I'm abroad, Miss Lister instructed her solicitor, do be sure to put in a claim for her estate on my behalf.

All this and more is discussed in the afterword of Emma Donoghue's 'Learned by Heart', about Lister and Raine's teenage relationship.

(These observations courtesy of Mr Absolutive, who actually read the book. I am a mere conduit of knowledge, a window for illumination, not a source of light myself.)

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With ‘Learned by Heart,’ Emma Donoghue Tells a Forgotten Story

The best-selling author explains why she wrote about an illicit teenage romance between Anne Lister, who’s considered the first modern lesbian, and her lover Eliza Raine.

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