#17 The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

#17 The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

The Rosie Effect is the follow-up novel to the wildly successful The Rosie Project in which we meet the main character, Don Tillman searching for the perfect woman. Don quickly discovers that he has to adjust his way of thinking if he’s going to find true love when he meets Rosie and begins helping her with a project of her own. If you haven’t read the first book, dear reader, I do recommend giving it a go first as Don is such an interesting character and his behaviors in TRE only really make sense if you have a sense of him from The Rosie Project. 

TRE opens with the happy couple living in New York.  Don works as a visiting professor at Columbia while Rosie works on her PhD thesis. After marrying Rosie, Don is forced to adjust again, modifying his many routines to accommodate his new wife, their life in America and their pending parenthood. Despite Don’s academic brilliance, his worldly innocence and social ineptitude get him into trouble again. What follows are hilarious continuations of Don’s odd behaviors which inevitably lead to confusion and misunderstandings as well as the possible loss of his life with Rosie. 

This is an entertaining read and would be great to add to your summer reading list. Until next time…have you read a book today?

Julie