You got a central AC unit for it? Plus, I see you put some furniture and a fridge in there. If you were married, I’d think you were building a man cave to get away from the old-ball-and-chain, but since you’re single, I guess you’re just planning on spending a lot of time in that shed.”

The night that these two spend together is told in a series of vignette-style stories the two tell each other.Moynagh Sullivan (Maynooth University), 'Mother and Child: Subjective Time, Space, History in Emma Donoghue's Room,' keynote delivered at ACIS (University of Miami, 2015). Woom” by Duncan Ralston is just one of those short stories you have to read it to believe it. I love horror as it’s my favorite genre to read but when it comes to extreme horror, this one definitely pushes the envelopes to realms that will definitely offend readers. Shyla is way too calm to find a grown man shoulder deep in her vagina. She thinks way to clearly for the pain she would be. It's all so ridiculous. Maite Escudero-Alias, (Zaragoza, Spain), ‘Beyond Trauma Narrative: Affects and Attachment in Emma Donoghue’s Room’, paper delivered at What Happens Now: 21 st Century Writing in English conference (University of Lincoln, 2012)

Gripping, harrowing, oddly life-affirming and imaginative… extraordinary power’– Mirror (Book of the Week) Whether we like it or not, birth opens the gate of death. Between the sentence lies the path of life, traveled by all beings, and no one gets out of here without some kind of mental or somatic souvenir. While some manage to heal their wounds, others may spiral into madness during the process. I do in general read mostly plot-focused books and if one is character-based, it has to be extremely popular, highly suggested or good-rated or has a unique plot and fresh ideas. I couldn´t imagine how a credible description of the point of view of a child could be described in such a setting and how the mother orchestrated their small world and how she had to react to the childs´ smartness to keep the semblance of an idyllic world intact is amazing.Also the whole talk about Shyla not getting pleasure from a normal sized penis since she doesn't have a cervix because her vagina is so long is not true. After a Trachelectomy the vagina is shorter not longer. I think the subject matter is definitely dark, disturbing, and gross. That’s why I bought the book. I didn’t know it would have as much to do with women being in pain as it did, although the larger theme is not necessarily that. The books covers a lot of dark themes in general. I have a little sister. She's 10 years younger than I am. Consequently, I had to put up with a hell of a lot of little kids growing up. They were intelligent, bright, precocious. I still couldn't stand their company. This book was hell. Boyd Tonkin, ‘Room With a Panoramic View: How Emma Donoghue's Latest Novel Aims to Tell a Universal Story’, Independent, 6 August 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/room-with-a-panoramic-view-how-emma-donoghues-latest-novel-aims-to-tell-a-universal-story-2044373.html. A particularly insightful article. I Knew I Wasn’t Being Voyeuristic’, interview by Sarah Crown, Guardian, 13 August 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/13/emma-donoghue-room-josef-fritzl

Bringing Up Baby', Emma Donoghue in discussion with Sir Michael Rutter at a Royal Society / Royal Society of Literature event, 7 July 2013, http://royalsociety.tv/rsPlayer.aspx?presentationid=1131 Interview about development of the film of Room with Miriam O'Callaghan on The John Murray Show, September 2013 Interview with Xtra Tv about a queer interpretation of Room, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYqXZsgO5vAI've read about a lot of different crimes, in far more detail than I'd care to remember. In all the tragedies that I've read about, manmade or otherwise, no act of violence has ever made my heart wrench more than the prolonged imprisonment of a human being for sexual purposes. It's also the crime I have the most difficulty in comprehending, as I cannot imagine the amount of inhumanity it would take to capture someone and look her in the eye, day after day for years, without mercy and without pity. I still get very upset when I read about these things, even years after the events which no doubt inspired this book. Ankita Das and Rajni Singh, 'Contesting Captive Spaces: A Reading of Emma Donoghue's Room,' Journal of English Language and Literature 9:2 (April 2018), chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/83fe/179029db37d9a3dc1e7789689cadb4af2393.pdf Shyla tells a story about a customer of hers who wanted her to sit on his face and essentially smother him. She does this, he loves it. She also tells a story about how she has an extra deep/wide/long vagina bc she was repeatedly raped with a baseball bat as a teen. Again, this is not in graphic detail. This is why she became a hooker, to pay for medical bills from the above incident and because she is unable to be satisfied by an average penis. She is unable to have children bc of the incident. This book is not for people with any type of triggers that cannot handle extreme graphic situations. I would recommend this to hard core horror fans that have stomachs made of steel! I had to literally read this in small doses as it was a rough read and I do believe that it is the most twisted story I have ever read. With all that being said I am giving this book four "Motel Madness" stars! I read this book a couple of years ago and it remains a favorite. Hearing that it's being made into a movie is intriguing. I'm always excited/anxious when this happens as I worry that it will replace some of things I loved most about the book...if that makes sense.

Andrea O’Reilly, ‘“All Those Years, I Kept Him Safe”: Maternal Practice as Redemption and Resistance in Emma Donoghue’s Room’, in Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research & Community Involvement, 8:1-2 (Spring/Fall 2017), 89-98. The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute Moynagh Sullivan, 'Lactation, Lactation, Lactation: Places, Bodies and In Between in Emma Donoghue's Room,' paper delivered at betweenbodies/bodiesbetween conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2013) A key difference between Freidman and Schwartz’s book up to 1960 and Blinder’s book from 1961 onwards is the inclusion of the fiscal history and the associated integration of some of the political economy that surrounds fiscal policy. I think this only improves upon the text and provides a fuller understanding of how the US is in the macroeconomic situation and framework it is today, but this inclusion stems from the difference between Blinder’s academic school of thought (Keynesian) and Friedman and Schwartz’s (Monetarists). Renate Brosch, Stuttgart University, ‘Narrativity and Visualisation: Narrative Beginnings as Attention’, paper delivered at International Conference on Narrative (York, 2013)As a life-affirming fable of parent-child love, and an antidote to the prurience of so much crime fiction, it's a triumph, and deserves to be a hit.’– Daily Telegraph How is Shyla able to handle dudes shitting in a diaper but a story about a guy pooping heroin bags makes her tell Angel to stop and it's gross.