The Rosie Project, de Graeme Simsion

Beaucoup de temps a passé depuis que j'ai publié un article ici, car mes études commencées en janvier ont été assez prenantes. Néanmoins, je compte me rattraper durant ces deux mois de vacances :)
Vacances que j'ai entamées en lisant The Rosie Project, de Graeme Simsion, en anglais : cette lecture rentre donc dans le cadre du challenge Read In English, organisé par Avalon, dont le lien se trouve dans la rubrique "Challenges" !

The Rosie Project (et oui, étant a moitié allemande, je soutiens la Mannschaft ce soir!)

Je n'avais jamais entendu parler de cet auteur, ni même de ce livre et c'est par hasard que je l'ai trouvé un soir dans la chambre de ma soeur. J'ai été séduite par la couverture simpliste, avec un homard au centre, et par le fait que ce livre était en anglais. Après des mois sans avoir lu, j'avais déjà tout une liste de livres que je souhaitais lire mais j'ai commencé par celui ci, sans regrets.

Quatrième de couverture : Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A handsome 39 yer-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So he devises The Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie - "the world's mot incompatible woman" - throwing Don's safe, ordered life into chaos. Just what is this unsettling, alien emotion he's feeling?

Let's do this chronic in english! I read this book in a few days, and enjoyed my reading. The author's style was simple, yet nice to read, and you get attached to the characters, almost to all of them.
This book is the story of Don, the narrator, a geneticist who is looking for a way to find a female mate, a task that is difficult to him since he is socially akward, and not only because he is shy : he says that he is wired differently from others, which causes him to say things in a certain manner that can be misleading to people.
Actually, he has a timetable for everything, he is the most organised man in Australia, and eats the same thing from week to week, believing that any change in his organisation may cause great chaos. As a solution to his mate finding problem, he creates a questionnaire for women to fill, with questions concerning many things, from smoking, to puncuality and even mathematic abilities.
But when he meets Rosie, he is convinced that she doesn't fill the criterias right, but the quest of finding her biological father, thanks to Don's knowledge of DNA, makes them spend a lot of time together and Don finds himself feeling emotions he had never felt before...

I'll stick here with the resumé, I don't want to revel to much of the intrigue, but I found this book funny and full of suspence : you get attached to Don, to Rosie, and you want to know how their relation evolves as they search for Rosie's biological father. In addition, I found it quite interessting to have the story narrated by someone who has OCDs and might have a form of Aspergers syndrom. This diagnosis is never really admitted for Don, but as you read his thoughts and the way he sees things, you can make a guess yourself, or simply discover another way of seeing the world and human interactions.

If I had to say one thing about this book, it's that it wasn't the best I have ever read, it misses something undescribable that would make you want to stay up all night to read more, but it was a pleasant lecture!