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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. I will add
Wed Feb 23, 2022, 09:43 PM
Feb 2022
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion to that list.

Don Tillman, a genetics professor, has decided he needs a wife, so he starts The Wife Project. However, he soon meets Rosie who wants to locate her biological father, and so The Rosie Project happens. A lot of what makes it hilarious is that Tillman clearly is on the spectrum (Asperger's, which alas is no longer a separate diagnosis) but is also clearly oblivious to that.

I had the pleasure of meeting the author at a book event when it first came out.

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I will add PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #1
Thx! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #2
I LOVED that book and the sequel. CurtEastPoint Feb 2022 #3
The third book was much better than the second, PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2022 #6
Thanks for posting. I've read a couple of those books, but this list Arkansas Granny Feb 2022 #4
Yw SheltieLover Feb 2022 #5
I tried to read hippywife Feb 2022 #7
I just could not read Discworld books SheltieLover Feb 2022 #9
I love Discworld!!! yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #18
Baja Oklahoma, by Dan Jenkins. nocoincidences Feb 2022 #8
Thx! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #10
Fup, by Jim Dodge AnotherDreamWeaver Feb 2022 #11
"Surrender the Pink" by Carrie Fisher bif Feb 2022 #12
Truly hermetic Feb 2022 #14
Humor's a funny thing, as the saying goes. bif Feb 2022 #13
I agree hermetic Feb 2022 #15
Have you seen the tv version? bif Feb 2022 #16
a few of my favorites: yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #17
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