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Room (2015) is a movie directed by Lenny Abrahamson, written by Emma Donoghue (based on her award-winning novel), and starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. It’s about a woman kept prisoner by a rapist in a backyard shed for seven years where she gives birth to a son and raises him for five years before […]

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Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for this year’s Oscar Awards. Two novelists, Nick Hornby and Emma Donoghue, were recognized in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.

Hornby wrote the script for Brooklyn based on Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel. Donoghue wrote the script for Room (published in 2010) based on her own novel which shares the same title.

Click here to watch the trailer for the Brooklyn film adaptation. Follow this link to see the trailer for the Room film adaptation.

The Revenant, a film adaptation directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, has earned twelve academy Academy Award nominations. John Krasinski, an actor, joined Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, to make the announcement this morning.

The movie, based in part on Michael Punke’s 2015 novel, stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role of Hugh Glass. We’ve embedded the official trailer above–what did you think of the film?

The pieces recognized in the Best Picture category included a number of adapted books. Below, we’ve linked to free samples of books adapted into this year’s Best Picture-nominated films.

Free Samples of Books Adapted into Best Picture Nominees

The Revenant by Michael Punke

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The Martian by Andy Weir

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Huffington Post has unveiled a new clip from the movie ‘Room.’ The video embedded above offers glimpses of Brie Larson as Ma and Jacob Tremblay as Jack.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the story for this project comes from Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel. Donoghue herself adapted her book for the script.

The wide release date has been set for Nov. 6. Follow these links to watch a movie trailer and a book trailer.

Emma Donoghue has signed a deal with Scholastic to write her debut middle grade book. As a writer, Donoghue (pictured, via) has become well-known for her popular adult novel Room.

The team at the Arthur A. Levine Books imprint has scheduled the release of The Lotterys Plus One for February 2017. Levine, the editor for this manuscript, negotiated the deal with Kathleen Anderson of the Anderson Literary Agency.

Here’s more from the press release: “The Lotterys Plus One introduces Sumac Lottery, a girl with six siblings, two moms, two dads, and a tranquil cloud-painted room in the big Victorian house they all call Camelottery. When her racist, homophobic grandfather nearly burns his house down, he has to move in with the Lotterys, a volatile situation about which no one is happy, least of all Sumac, who has to give up her room. The Lotterys Plus One is a funny, sensitive exploration of family, the limits of tolerance, and the possibilities of love.”

Few topics are more contentious at Powell's than agreeing on the "best" works of fiction. Our tastes run the gamut from experimental tragicomedies to multi-generational sagas to offbeat coming-of-age tales to surreal character studies... and so on. As such, rather than present selections from one perspective, we thought it wise to get a more representative [...]

Emma Donoghue's meticulously researched story of 1870's San Francisco is a perfectly realized murder mystery, but with a definite literary bent. Prostitutes, frog catchers, madams, gamblers, and "baby farms" all play an integral part here. What is so rewarding about this story are the characters; Donoghue created them from real-life people, based on sketchy references and [...]

We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending April 06, 2014–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.

(Debuted at #1 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis: “Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets.” (March 2014)

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Frog Music is a thrilling work of historical fiction by one of my favorite authors. Set in 1870s San Francisco, Donoghue's first mystery introduces Blanche and Jenny, two remarkable characters who keep us mesmerized as the story powerfully unfolds. If you're a fan of Room, you must read Frog Music. Books mentioned in this post [...]

Emma Donoghue mines current headlines for her harrowing account of a young women held captive in a room for years. Forced to bear a child by her captor, "Ma" becomes increasingly desperate to escape her one-room hell. On the other hand, Jack, her 5-year-old son, loves "Room" — it is his entire world. Narrated by Jack, this [...]

By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: January 10, 2011

As announced by the American Library Association (ALA), the Alex Awards represent the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:

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I was three years into writing a book that in some ways deals with the multiple strains and awful unknowing of a kidnapping when I learned about Emma Donoghue's new novel, Room.  Within a nanosecond, it seemed, Room had become the rage—awards listed and best selling.  I did what I could to filter out the news until I had written the final sentence of my own story, set it aside, let it breathe.

That was several weeks ago.  Yesterday and early this morning I sat with Room and read it through.  It is not at all the story I have written, but it fascinated me nonetheless—to walk this terrain with the talented Donoghue, to see just where her mind went as she conjured the five-year-old narrator, Jack, who in a language nearly his own tells the story of being sequestered for his first five years in an 11 x 11 foot space with his mother.  Ma was just nineteen years old and a college student when she was stolen straight out of her life.  She has found a way to survive and to mother in an unyielding room whose only view to the outside is via a skylight.  Songs, games, stories keep the two alive.  A daring escape leads them to cacophonous Outside.  Outside doesn't just confuse Jack.  It often angers him.  Ma, for her part, is relieved and abraded.  She will suffer a long time, as victims do.

The reviewers have been most keen on Jack's linguistics—his peculiar but never confusing way of speaking.  It's like reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, except that instead of moocows and nicens little boy named baby tuckoo we have a narrator who depicts his confinement to us in expressive, open language:  I jump onto Rocker to look at Watch, he says 07:14.  I can skateboard onto Rocker without holding on to her, then I whee back onto Duvet and I'm snowboarding instead.

It is Jack's own bright world, for he knows no better.  It is his mother's hell; she tries to protect him.  Donoghue gives us Ma's ache through her naive-wise son's eyes.  Because we know more than Jack can, we are made queasy, uncomfortable, prickled.  Because Jack is telling the story, we have hope.

I admire writers who create scenarios that are as tight and fortified as Jack's 11 x 11 room and yet find a way out, a gap between the bars, a path toward resolution.  Room had me turning the pages, intent, always, on finding out what happened.  It is a book, as many have said, that won't be soon forgotten.

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bermudaonion said, on 9/21/2010 9:31:00 AM

I agree with you, but it did take me a little while to adjust to Jack's language. Once I did, I couldn't put the book down.

Julia said, on 9/21/2010 9:47:00 AM

The whole 'baby tuckoo thing' really befuddled me when I sat down with Joyce. I hope that this is more coherent, in its own way.

Kelly H-Y said, on 9/21/2010 2:07:00 PM

That sounds really good.

Lilian Nattel said, on 9/22/2010 10:03:00 AM

What a challenging novel to take on. I can't imagine confining a narrative to a single room. How long does the novel stay there?

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