Der Rosie-Effekt: Roman (Das Rosie-Projekt) (vuoden 2016 painos)

This is the second installment about Rosie Jarman and Don Tillman, geneticist. They are married and living in New York City. He is an assistant professor at Columbia University and she is a medical student and also finishing her PhD. in psychology. The entire book is about Rosie being pregnant and Don trying to learn all he can about it--nutrition, exercise, delivery. He calls the baby Bud for Baby Under Development and keeps track of the progress in his bathroom office on the white tiles. All the stresses associated with his condition and her total focus on the baby causes problems for them. ( )

I laughed out loud. That makes it more than 3 stars right off the bat. Plus, Don and Rosie are back! ( )

The Rosie Effect is the second book in the Rosie trilogy. You definitely need to read The Rosie Project first. In The Rosie Effect, Don and Rosie are married and have moved to New York City so that Rosie can go to medical school at Columbia. They are both surprised when Rosie finds out she’s pregnant. If you know Don, you can guess how well he deals with the unexpected.

The Rosie Effect was just as funny as The Rosie Project. The scene where Don gets arrested at a playground after he follows his friend Gene’s advice to “watch some kids” to figure out how they behave is particularly hilarious. However, I found the drama between Don and Rosie to be somewhat manufactured. I didn’t like Rosie much in this book and I liked her a lot in The Rosie Project. It didn’t feel like her character took an authentic turn in this book. That being said, I still enjoyed The Rosie Effect and I definitely recommend it if you read and liked The Rosie Project. ( )

I hate when I read the second book before the first -- that's what happened here in my mad-dash library grab. So I wasn't familiar with the characters from the Rosie Project, but it was easy to catch up with them and their current status. Don Tillman, narrator, and "not average" has an approach to life that is uber-intelligent -- like off the grid and while he is called "autistic" and certainly has savant tendencies, it is unclear if he has ever been diagnosed or embraces that label. He definitely knows the things he needs to work on: reading facial expressions, expressing emotion, veering off schedule, and eye contact, but it doesn't seem to limit his work as a genetics professor at Columbia University in NY. Where is does challenge him is in his personal life with wife Rosie and her announcement of pregnancy. Using his bathroom wall tiles as a massive chart for the pregnancy's progress, he has the scientific situation in hand, but his missteps and social gaffes are what drive the book's conflict and hilarity. He is such a good soul and the cast of characters of his 7 friends add very humorous layers to the story. So many cringe-worthy scenarios, but Don know there is a solution to them all. Watching him arrive at them with his matrix-like thinking is all the fun. ( )

First of all, I really enjoyed the first book - the Rosie project, where Don Tillman, a geneticist with mild Asperger syndrome, decides to find a wife by having women complete a questionnaire. Enter Rosie who is completely not what Don thinks he wants, they fall in love and get married. They move to New York from Australia and that is where this book starts.

Don has a job at Columbia University and Rosie is working on finishing her PhD as well as medical school when she abruptly informs Don that she is pregnant. To prepare for the baby, Don, who has appropriated the second bathroom in the apartment as his office (it has a built in seat and he can work at the same time as using the potty), decides that the wall tiles will make a great white board to document the fetal development while not upsetting Rosie with his clinical approach. This was the best of the book, IMO, it went downhill from there

There was too much going on - house guests, moving to a new apartment, being pickup as a pedophile, a psychologist with an ax to grind, rock stars. Just too much. I really wish that the author had reread the first book and kept the characters on the same path as they started.

I don't think I'll follow Don and Rosie and Hud in the future. ( )