The Rosie Project, book #8

So I took a huge divergence from my usual reading style for this book.  Rebecca and Leah are in a book club at school and this is the book they were working on for this month.  It looked interesting so I read it too.  

Honestly, it was a really good book.  But, like most good movies and TV shows these days, there was way too much useless profanity in it.  (That is a whole other post I have rolling around in my head.)  Rebecca has invited me to come to their next meeting, and I will be interested to see what the other people think about it.  Were they offended as I was over the language?  Or did they just fly right by it as they have become numb to it?  Does that make it ok?  Is there any hope for "society" when these words become just like other words?  Or are they just like other words?  What makes a word a "bad" word? .... ok, ok I really do want to delve into this deeper at another point ...  but what is your opinion on the blatant use of unnecessary profanity in TV, movies, books, etc.  Is it not that big of a deal?  Should we be outraged and try to fight it (but how?)? Should we choose not to align ourselves with media that uses it? (But what would we watch?  Just no TV or movies?) And if we just ignore it as we become numb to it, will we find ourselves using it without even thinking about it?  What other behaviors are we "looking over" (sex before marriage, living together before marriage, etc) that will soon become "acceptable" to the millennials we are raising?

Ok, off the soap box.  Like I said, besides that part, it was a really sweet love story about trying to balance being yourself, fitting into society when you just don't, and what does LOVE really look like?

The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”). But Don is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you.  (picture and description from amazon)

There is a sequel to this book which I am tempted to read, but I'm just not sure ....

O:)
Melissa