The Girl Who Was So Not Disappointed

Oh.  My.  God.  Just finished Room by Emma Donoghue this second, and it was so f***ing amazing.  Touching and terrible, and sweet and sad, and funny, all at the same time.  Everything seemed just perfectly spot-on, although I don't really know how people would think if they were locked in a room by a vicious monster for years, so I could be wrong, of course.  But the emotions and ways of coping and communicating seem realistic.  I knew what the story was about before I started reading the book, so I wonder if coming into it blind would have changed the experience, but if anything, I think it would only have been even more amazing to figure out with the little boy, Jack, that there is a whole other world outside the room he has spent his whole life in.  This was the first of this year's Booker Prize contestants I've read, and I have to say, while I will be grabbing two more on my way home tonight, I can't imagine that they will be better - or, at least, that they will affect me in the same way and stay with me as long.  So amazing.