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The Rosie Project review

Move over, Sheldon Cooper. There’s a new brilliant, socially inept scientist poised to win over a huge audience, and his name is Don Tillman, in The Rosie Project .

Don, an accomplished professor of genetics, falls somewhere on the Asperger’s spectrum, and his frequent gaffes (the Apricot Ice Cream Disaster and the Jacket Incident, to name a few) have, naturally, prevented him from finding a suitable mate. He undertakes what he calls the Wife Project using a ludicrously exacting procedure: a 16-page questionnaire that asks female prospects to tell him their body mass index and answer questions like Do you eat kidneys? (correct answer: (c) occasionally ).

Throwing a wrench into his plan — not to mention his rigidly scheduled aikido regimen — is Rosie Jarman, a quirky bartender who fails the questionnaire big time. She’s a smoker, she’s never on time, and she doesn’t live up to Don’s standard of success. But even though he writes Rosie off as a candidate for the Wife Project (and yes, she informs him that the questionnaire is barbaric), Don enjoys her company so much that he uncharacteristically agrees to a high-risk scheme to help find her long-lost father.

It’s not surprising that debut novelist Graeme Simsion has a background in science — The Rosie Project , already a success in Australia, seems almost precision-engineered to keep readers turning pages. But unlike its unexpectedly lovable hero, this rom-com is bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and intentional humor. A-

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Henry Cavill Will Take A Break From Punching Things With 'The Rosie Project'

Henry Cavill is good at punching things. Really good. So good he has to c**k his fists to reload. Now, despite already having a very busy schedule that includes  Chad Stahelski 's  Highlander reboot  and  Matthew Vaughn 's spy flick  Argylle ,  he's signed onto a project where he gets to be more subdued.

Deadline reports that he is set to star in The Rosie Project , a romance film about a university professor who can't seem to find love and comes up with an unusual strategy to get it.

A Change of Pace for Cavill

Pretty much the only break Cavill's gotten from punching things was sitting down to read   The Witcher to all of us. He's portrayed a superhero from another planet, secret agents, and a magical beast-hunting warrior, but now he gets the chance to play something completely new to him: someone who can't get a date.

The Rosie Project  is based on the bestselling 2013 novel by Graeme Simsion . It follows Don Tillman, a genetics professor who creates an elaborate questionnaire he calls the Wife Project to find his perfect partner. The 16-page survey should filter out drinkers, smokers, late arrivers, and anything else that doesn't gel with Don's orderly nature. Then he meets Rosie, a woman who drinks, smokes, and is never on time. The two embark on an adventure to find Rosie's biological father together, and more develops between them. Despite being the opposite of what he was looking for, Rosie might be exactly the kind of woman Don needs.

Directors and stars alike have been circling  The Rosie Project for years now. Before signing on to direct  Solo: A Star Wars Story , directors  Phil Lord  and  Chris Miller  were almost set to develop and direct. Then TriStar signed  Jennifer Lawrence  and director  Richard Linklater  ( Everybody Wants Some!! ), but Lawrence dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and Linklater followed. At one point,  Deadpool star  Ryan Reynolds was in talks for the lead role.

Between  The Witcher , the aforementioned  Highlander and  Argylle flicks, and Netflix's  Enola Holmes 2 , Cavill is set to be one busy man in the next few years. Maybe this change of pace will let him show off his acting chops a bit more, and maybe give those beautiful arms a rest.

Production on The Rosie Project  is expected to begin in 2022.  Steve Falk , who worked on TV's  Weeds ,  will write and direct. Matt Tolmach  and  Michael Costigan will produce.

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Even after signing on to a  Highlander  reboot and Matthew Vaughn’s next spy action pic , Henry Cavill doesn’t look like he’s done setting up his future dance card as Deadline has confirmed that he is set to star in The Rosie Project . 

Steve Falk will write and direct the film, which follows an unlucky-in-love university professor who creates an elaborate questionnaire in an effort to find a wife and meets an unconventional woman who doesn’t match any of his “requirements,” but might be the perfect woman for him.

Matt Tolmach and Michael Costigan will produce.

The film is a change of pace for Cavill, who has been busy lining up action-heavy projects, and gives him an opportunity show his acting range. Cavill is set to shoot the sequel to Neflix’s Enola Holmes  this fall as well as Vaughn’s new spy thriller Argyle, with Rosie Project expected to shoot at the top of 2022.

The former  Man of Steel  star has been on roll as of late most recently also attaching to star in Lionsgate’s anticipated Highlander  reboot. He recently finished filming the second season of Netflix’s  The Witcher following its record-breaking first season. He is also set to return as Sherlock Holmes in the sequel to Enola Holmes  with Millie Bobby Brown returning in the title role.

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Henry Cavill to Star in Rom-Com ‘The Rosie Project’

The Sony Pictures film is an adaptation of Graeme Simsion’s novel of the same name

Henry Cavill will star in the upcoming rom-com, “The Rosie Project.”

The film, which has been in the making for a few years at Sony Pictures, is based on Graeme Simsion’s novel of the same name and will follow the former “Man of Steel” actor as Don Tillman, a genetics professor on his journey to find love. Tillman has never been on a second date, but is determined to find his wife with “The Wife Project,” an evidence-based way to ultimately find Tillman’s perfect match. However, he meets Rosie, a free-spirited, slightly “wild” bartender that’s exactly the opposite of what Tillman is looking for. But of course, the pair fall in love.

Stephen Falk will direct, while Matt Tolmach and Michael Costigan will produce.

This film is a new direction for Cavill, as he’s mainly known for his role as Superman in superhero films, such as “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Justice League” and roles in action spy films such as “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and “Mission: Impossible–Fallout.” Also, Cavill is set to star in Lionsgate’s action-packed “Highlander” reboot, recently finished filming the second season of Netflix’s “The Witcher” and will return as Sherlock Holmes in the “Enola Holmes” sequel.

“The Rosie Project” is set to begin projection in early 2022.

Deadline first reported the news.

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Henry Cavill to Star in Romantic Comedy 'The Rosie Project'

He'll play an unlucky-in-love professor, and if Henry Cavill can't find a good woman, what chance do the rest of us have?

Henry Cavill has signed on to star in Sony's romantic comedy The Rosie Project , which was once developed as a starring vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence .

Stephen Falk will direct from a script by (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber , and Matt Tolmach ( Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ) is producing the film with Michael Costigan ( Ghost in the Shell ).

Cavill will play an unlucky-in-love university professor who creates an elaborate questionnaire in an effort to find a wife. When he meets an unconventional woman who doesn’t match any of his “requirements," he's surprised to discover that she just might be the perfect woman for him.

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Numerous actors have flirted with The Rosie Project over the years, including both Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal , until eventually, an offer made its way to Cavill, who is hot right now following the back-to-back success of The Witcher and Enola Holmes on Netflix.

Cavill recently finished shooting Season 2 of The Witcher , and he'll begin filming the Enola Holmes sequel this fall along with Matthew Vaughn 's new star-studded spy thriller Argylle . Thus, The Rosie Project isn't slated to start production until early next year.

Keep in mind that Cavill is also attached to star in Lionsgate's Highlander reboot, so his schedule is jam-packed. We'll just have to wait and see if he has the time to don Superman's red cape once again in an upcoming DC movie, as has long been "rumored." Wink, nudge!

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Review: ‘The Rosie Project,’ by Graeme Simsion, is a classic romantic comedy

It's natural to be wary of a novel that's been the target of such gushy praise . Publishers in at least 38 countries have snapped up the rights to " The Rosie Project ," which has been touted as a "publishing phenomenon," an "international sensation" and no less than "the feel-good hit of 2013."

Well, squelch your inner cynic: The hype is justified. Australian Graeme Simsion has written a genuinely funny novel. It's told in the voice of a 39-year-old genetics professor named Don Tillman, who has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that affects his social skills. (Once, while delivering a lecture, he calls on "the fat woman — overweight woman — at the back," then expresses relief to have so quickly corrected this "minor social error.") As a result, he has only two friends: Gene, a philandering fellow professor, and Claudia, Gene's psychologist wife.

Encouraged by his friends and knowing that “married men are happier and live longer,” Tillman begins the Wife Project — an earnest attempt to find the proper mate. He’s “tall, fit, and intelligent,” he tells himself. “In the animal kingdom, I would succeed in reproducing.” In the real world? Not so much. He starts his search disastrously, with a questionnaire for potential dates that includes freakishly selective questions such as “Do you eat kidneys?” (The correct answer is “Occasionally.”) A singles party and a speed-dating event prove equally fruitless.

By chance and apart from the Wife Project, he meets Rosie, a woman who smokes, can’t cook, doesn’t exercise, is chronically late and declares herself a vegetarian — all of which flat-out disqualifies her, according to the Wife Project questionnaire. Yet Tillman is intrigued when he learns that Rosie is seeking the identity of her biological father, and he’s thrown by the fact that he has such fun in real life with someone who appears so inappropriate on paper.

Simsion, a former IT consultant, wrote “The Rosie Project” as a screenplay. He later turned it into a novel, and last year he won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The buzz spread fast: Sony Pictures has optioned the screen rights.

Reading this novel, you can't help casting the film in your head: Who'll play the lovably awkward (and, the book makes clear, fit and handsome) lead character? Paul Rudd, maybe. Rosie? Jennifer Lawrence, in " Silver Linings Playbook " mode. Definitely.

There’s no denying that this is classic rom-com. “I had been living in the world of romantic comedy,” Tillman notes toward the happy ending, “and this was the final scene.”

The rosiest news of all is that it's not the final scene: Simsion is writing a sequel.

Ianzito is a writer and editor in Washington.

THE ROSIE PROJECT

By Graeme Simsion

Simon & Schuster. 295 pp. $24

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Henry Cavill will star in the literary adaptation The Rosie Project. The romance film will be a change of pace for the Man of Steel action star.

Henry Cavill will star in the literary adaptation The Rosie Project . The actor has starred in several action hits in recent years, including Netflix’s The Witcher and Enola Holmes . Cavill has also proven himself a box-office draw, gracing screens as Superman in the DC Extended Universe films and Mission: Impossible – Fallout .

Deadline  reports that Cavill will star in The Rosie Project . The news was first reported by Giant Freakin Robot . The project will be an adaptation of Australian author Graeme Simsion’s 2013 novel of the same name. Production is still seeking a female lead to play Rosie. It was previously reported that Jennifer Lawrence was once attached but left the project after negotiations soured. Back then, Boyhood director Richard Linklater was set to direct.

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Cavill is best known for his action roles, making this an exciting change of pace for the actor. Indeed, the role calls to mind Clark Kent more than Superman. The Witcher star may be looking to diversify his acting portfolio after a string of high-adrenaline hits, and The Rosie Project might be the project for him.

The Rosie Project is the story of genetics professor Don Tillman, who struggles to have a serious relationship with women and has never been on a second date. To correct this, he devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners. However, his plan is scuppered when he meets Rosie, who is everything the questionnaire rules out (wild, chaotic, and carefree). The pair of opposites fall in love in this romantic fiction.

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The Rosie Project series

‘[Don Tillman] has almost transcended the boundaries of fiction to become a geek icon.’ — Guardian

As an autistic advocate and author I loved how Graeme Simsion approached the topic of autism. It resonated with my own experience. — Yenn Purkis

The Rosie Project series comprises three novels featuring autistic protagonist Don Tillman: The Rosie Project (2013), The Rosie Effect (2014) and The Rosie Result (2019) plus Don Tillman’s Standardized Meal System. Two stand-alone stories featuring Don are included in Creative Differences and Other Stories. The series has sold more than 6 million books in 40 languages.

First published by Text Publishing, 30 January 2013

‘An extraordinarily clever, funny, and moving book about being comfortable with who you are and what you’re good at…This is one of the most profound novels I’ve read in a long time.’ — Bill Gates

‘Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book.’ — Marian Keyes

‘1930s screwball comedy updated for 2013…like those films, underscored with writing meticulously judged…Extremely loud and incredibly long applause.’ — Age/SMH/Canberra Times/Brisbane Times

‘Quietly profound.’ — Independent

‘It’s not hard to see why the Rosie novels have been welcomed by the autism community…Simsion’s message of inclusiveness and embracing differences is lovely…’ — NPR

‘One of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time.’ — The Times

‘The charm of this story is Simsion’s affectionate depiction of his strange, flawed, infuriating, logical and always amusing protagonist.’ — Weekend Australian

‘ Don Tillman is utterly and beautifully unique and, be warned, you will fall in love with him.’ — Australian Women’s Weekly

‘What an endearing, funny book… A must read.’ — Courier Mail/Daily Telegraph

‘One of the quirkiest, most adorable novels I’ve come across… a brilliant first novel from a mature, clever writer.’ — NZ Herald on Sunday

‘Graeme Simsion has created perhaps the first thoroughly comic autistic hero…’ — Guardian

‘Funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism.’ — Independent

‘…Simsion has fashioned a very funny and touching love story… a clever satire on modern, internet-led dating… — Sunday Express

‘ found the crack in our seemingly interminable winter to let laughter and light flood in.’ — Sunday Times UK

‘[Don Tillman is] one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time.’ — The Times

‘Crackling with wit and boasting an almost perfectly calibrated heartbreak-to-romance ratio…joins ranks with the best romantic comedies of our age.’ — Globe and Mail Canada

‘ You’ll be laughing out loud at Don’s misadventures.’ — Daily Mail

‘ a completely charming story that is as engaging as it is funny.’ — Independent

The Rosie Project

Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn’t know who to yet.

But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.

Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father—a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with.

The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. Why quick-dry clothes aren’t appropriate attire in New York. Why he’s never been on a second date. And why, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love: love finds you.

‘I didn’t have autism explicitly in mind when I wrote The Rosie Project. I was just drawing on a kind of person that I’d met throughout my life, from being a science geek as a kid, amateur radio, a physics degree, working in information technology. I didn’t read any clinical descriptions and I think that’s the strength of the characterisation: it comes from people I’ve known, been friends with, loved, rather than a concept of a disease or deficit. – GCS

65 weeks on the NYT bestseller list

No. 1 bestseller in Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan…

Winner, Australian Book Industry Awards, Best Novel and Book of the Year, 2014

Winner, Victorian Premier’s Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript, 2012

Shortlisted, ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, 2014

Shortlisted, The Indie Awards, 2014

Shortlisted, Waverton Good Read Award, United Kingdom, 2014

Longlisted, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Ireland, 2015

Interviews and Reviews

Independent : The 10 greatest love stories in literature   Booktopia interview Readings Shearer’s Bookshop interview Joan’s Pick (Whitcoulls NZ) The Small Picture Podcasts ABC Radio Perth review Boomerang Books profile The Wheeler Centre Q&A Radio NZ interview Australian Writers’ Centre podcast BBC Radio 2 interview   Canberra Readers, Writers and Storytellers Festival Tom Ballard podcast: What’s the Story?   Independent    

First published by Text Publishing, 24 September 2014

‘I had concluded that being myself, with all my intrinsic flaws, was more important than having the thing I wanted most.’ — The Rosie Effect

‘[A] romantic comedy that’s just as smart, funny and heartwarming as the original.’ — Washington Post

‘A wholly absorbing, vivid read that leaves you pining to be reunited with its characters every time you put it down—if you’re able to.’ — Independent

‘Unlike most sequels, this second book is very close to being as good as the first…The writing is witty and the characters charming,,,’ — Dominion Post

‘This good-hearted, pacy, thoroughly enjoyable novel takes a significant step towards showing that all human variants are a potential source of life‑affirming comedy.’ — Guardian

‘Don Tillman…is a gem, an empirical laser trained on human shortcomings, Through him, Simsion…deals with issues of nature, nurture, gender, free will and the vagaries of the human heart with a deceptively light touch.’ — Evening Standard

‘ no less than classic Hitchcockian suspense…’ — NPR

‘There’s no sophomore [second-novel] slump here…It’s a funny novel that also made me think about relationships: what makes them work and how we have to keep investing time and energy to make them better. A sweet, entertaining, and thought-provoking book.’ — Bill Gates

‘Don Tillman helps us believe in possibility, makes us proud to be human beings, and the bonus is this: he keeps us laughing like hell. I’d love to have a beer with the humane and hilarious Graeme Simsion.’ — Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Lining Playbook

‘Don himself, pedantically single-focused as ever, is increasingly charismatic and the left-field resolution of his problems is as satisfyingly credible as it is delightfully unexpected.’ — Adelaide Advertiser

‘Very sweet, very wry.’ — West Australian

‘The Rosie Effect is a successful sequel…with a memorable main character and plenty of heart.’ — Weekend Australian

‘As endearing as its predecessor.’ — NW

‘Another rollicking ride. I can only hope the madcap journey isn’t over yet.’ — Otago Daily Times

‘Don’s struggle to fit in with “ordinary” society makes for charming reading and the novel has insightful as well as comic moments.’ — NZ Herald on Sunday

‘This charming new chapter in the Tillman chronicles leaves you hoping it won’t be the last.’ — People

‘[A] winning sequel…The Rosie Effect is a celebration of the best attributes to be found in a friend, a husband, or a father, regardless of the way they are expressed.’  STARRED Review — Booklist

‘Brilliantly funny.’ — International Traveller

‘In Simsion’s hands, Don’s voice once again shines as one of the most unique in contemporary fiction.’ — Everyday Ebook

The Rosie Effect

‘We’ve got something to celebrate,’ Rosie said.

I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone with her thesis. Or perhaps she had been offered a place in the psychiatry-training programme. This would be extremely good news, and I estimated the probability of sex at greater than 80%.

‘We’re pregnant,’ she said.

Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are now married and living in New York. Don has been teaching while Rosie completes her second year at Columbia Medical School. Just as Don is about to announce that Gene, his philandering best friend from Australia, is coming to stay, Rosie drops a bombshell: she’s pregnant.

In true Tillman style, Don instantly becomes an expert on all things obstetric. But in between immersing himself in a new research study on parenting and implementing the Standardised Meal System (pregnancy version), Don’s old weaknesses resurface. And while he strives to get the technicalities right, he gets the emotions all wrong, and risks losing Rosie when she needs him most.

The Rosie Effect is as charming and hilarious as its predecessor.

New York Times Bestseller

No. 1 Globe and Mail Bestseller, Canada

Shortlisted, Indie Book Awards, 2015

Shortlisted, Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, 2015

Shortlisted, Australian Book Industry General Fiction Award, 2015

Interviews and reviews

Enchanted Prose    NPR  

Half a Page of Scribbled Lines   RMIT News 891 ABC Adelaide for Adelaide Writers Week 2015 ABC Radio National Books & Arts Daily Write Note Reviews

First published by Text Publishing, 5 February 2019

‘Resilience appeared to be the equivalent of toughening up, which, when I was a child, was a general excuse for bullying.’ — The Rosie Result

‘Eloquent, and insightful, The Rosie Result is a triumphant conclusion to Don’s story, one that celebrates this remarkable father, husband, and friend in all his complexity and brilliance. — Booklist (starred review)

[A] thoughtful and provocative novel [with] a grand design that will have relevance in the lives of many individual readers… —  Age

‘Heart-warming and clever’ — Daily Mail

‘Deals with issues of nature, nurture, gender, free will and the vagaries of the human heart with a deceptively light touch.’ — Evening Standard

‘Simsion hits just the right balance between serious literary exploration of social issues and the delightfully humorous (mis)adventures of an unusual but good-intentioned modern family… — New York Journal of Books

‘It’s a pleasure to inhabit Don’s rational mindset again’ — Australian

‘The comedy is still there but there’s a philosophical seriousness to this one, which brings the whole issue much closer to home. I liked it very much and I recommend it.’ — The Bookshelf, Radio National

‘It is an ambitious task: writing a light and engaging novel while incorporating a serious topic in an inclusive manner. But Simsion pulls it off, maintaining a strong sense of characterisation and narrative, all the while encouraging readers to question their own values.’  — Conversation

‘For a read that appears light on the surface, The Rosie Result contains a lot of depth…  the strongest book in the series…’  — Reader NZ

Graeme Simsion breaks open the ‘A’ word by smashing preconceived prejudices and stereotypes — Kathy Hoopmann, author of All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

‘An engaging story full of wit and humour, yet sensitive and sad at times too.’ — Weekly Times

‘Expect lots of laughs and plenty to ponder over.’ — SA Weekend

‘Graeme Simsion tackles some of the heavy issues of our day – autism, gender roles, political correctness – but his light touch makes this novel a fun and satisfying read.’ — Sunday Express S Magazine

‘[T]his is a must-read; for everyone, it is uplifting, eye-opening and definite food for thought.’ — My Weekly

‘Simsion delivers a brave attempt at asking important questions without compromising his characters’ respective journeys, nor losing his trademark mix of humour and emotion…The resolution feels earned and genuinely heartwarming. — Independent

‘although [Don’s] social awkwardness gives rise to many genuinely funny moments, the laughs are never cheap or mean…’ — Otago Daily Times

‘the ideal ending to the trilogy.’ — Publishers Weekly

‘ the emotionally raw conclusion to an endearing series, and it will surely leave readers satisfied.’ — BookTrib

‘…a fitting conclusion to a trilogy that explores the human condition in a uniquely nuanced way.’ — San Francisco Chronicle

‘Simsion returns to comic form seamlessly…A meditation on parenting in our times, an indictment of discrimination and a fond farewell to a one-of-a-kind character.’ — Shelf Awareness

‘Clever, moving and laugh out loud funny.’ — Toronto Sun

The Rosie Result

I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began…

Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they’re about to face their most important challenge.

Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward and not fitting in. Don’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in—so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs?

The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be himself, and raise some significant questions about his own identity.

Meanwhile, there are multiple distractions to deal with: the Genetics Lecture Outrage, Rosie’s troubles at work, estrangement from his best friend Gene…

And opening the world’s best cocktail bar.

Hilarious and thought-provoking, with a brilliant cast of characters, The Rosie Result is the triumphant final instalment of the much-loved and internationally bestselling Rosie trilogy.

Read a sample chapter of The Rosie Result.

As the series progressed, particularly with The Rosie Result which was written a decade after I began The Rosie Project, I became more aware of and involved in the autism community , and, given the volume of sales, realised that the books were going to be influential in how readers perceived autism. So, I did my best to get it right, recognising that autism presents in different ways in different people. In The Rosie Result, we have multiple autistic characters, and I think that’s unusual: you think of a book or TV series or movie featuring autism, and usually there’s only one autistic person. But birds of a feather …’

2SER: Final Draft 2SER: Tuesday Book Club 3CR (15:00) 3RRR: Backstory (0:11:30) ABC Radio National: The Book Show   ABC Radio: Evenings (2:30:00) ABC Radio: Nightlife (1:00:00) ABC Radio: Saturday Breakfast ABC Radio Hobart: Your Afternoon ( 1:42:00) ABC Radio Perth: Drive   ABC Radio Southwest Victoria (autoplay) Age Australian ($) Australian Financial Review ($) Booktopia Booktrib   BreakThru Radio: Book Talk   Canberra Times Cass Moriarty Channel 10: Studio 10 Book Club The Conversation    Entertainment Weekly   Global News Canada (video autoplay) Guardian : Bookmark This Herald Sun ($) Hope FM: Hope Book Club   Independent (UK) Library Journal (starred review)  Library Journal   Mary Dalmau ‘The Rosie trilogy is deserving of the accolades it has garnered and The Rosie Result is the best possible goodbye to the world of Don Tillman.’ Mum’s Lounge: 18 Books to Add to Your Must-Read List This Summer   New Daily Newstalk ZB   Not Weird Just Autistic podcast   The Osher Günsberg Podcast: Episode 1 The Osher Günsberg Podcast: Episode 2 Radio National  (approx. 48:00) ‘The comedy is still there but there’s a philosophical seriousness to this one, which brings the whole issue much closer to home. I liked it very much and I recommend it.’ Radio National: All in the Mind Radio New Zealand The Reader ( Booksellers NZ Blog) San Francisco Chronicle   Shelf Awareness   Sydney Morning Herald : Good Weekend   Toronto Sun   Wheeler Centre podcast   Your Second Draft  ‘ The Rosie Result is a funny, generous and thoughtful trip through finding fulfilment and living with the choices we make.’

First published by Text Publishing, 3 December 2019

‘So, you cook this same meal every Tuesday, right?’ ‘Correct.’ I listed the eight major advantages of the Standardised Meal System. 1. No need to accumulate recipe books. 2. Standard shopping list—hence very efficient shopping. 3. Almost zero waste—nothing in the refrigerator or pantry unless required for one of the recipes. 4. Diet planned and nutritionally balanced in advance. 5. No time wasted wondering what to cook. 6. No mistakes, no unpleasant surprises. 7. Excellent food, superior to most restaurants at a much lower price (see point 3). 8. Minimal cognitive load required. ‘Cognitive load?’ ‘The cooking procedures are in my cerebellum—virtually no conscious effort is required.’ ‘Like riding a bike.’ ‘Correct.’

Don Tillman's Standardized Meal System

Here at last, by popular demand, is the weekly system of food preparation that Professor Don Tillman, star of the Rosie trilogy, lives by—everything from his signature lobster salad to the world’s best risotto, across the four seasons. This essential guide also includes handy tips about losing weight, mixing cocktails and stress-free entertaining.

Don Tillman’s Standardized Meal System will not only show you how to make delicious meals: it will open your mind to a different way of shopping, cooking and living. The Don Tillman way.

‘ Writing this little book was probably not the smartest use of my time – testing the recipes took forever. And if  you’re looking for a recipe book, you can surely do better. DTSMS is really a vehicle for sharing a bit more of Don Tillman’s quirky but (usually) rational approach to life – and particularly to cooking and entertaining, which can occupy more than their share of brain space. At one time I saw it as a precursor to a column ‘What would Don do?’ and I have to admit that I’ve asked myself that question at times of crisis. I used to say that if I got one good idea out of a conference session or popular business book, I’d consider I’d done well. Hopefully there are enough life hacks in here to justify the purchase.’ — GCS

‘ I didn’t really do cocktails – I’m more of a wine guy – till I had to research them for The Rosie Project. Now I drink them more often than is healthy.’ — GCS

Yuzu Margarita (Created using Don Tillmans’ Sour Generator)

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By Gabriel Roth

• Oct. 18, 2013

Don Tillman doesn’t know he has Asperger’s syndrome, although his symptoms are obvious to friends and colleagues. He flinches from physical contact and cooks all his meals according to an unvarying schedule; his approach to courtship consists of handing women a detailed questionnaire to test their suitability.

It is a convention of romantic comedy that a man’s rigidly constrained existence must be disrupted by an impulsive and uninhibited woman, and Graeme Simsion’s “Rosie Project,” unlike its hero, is resolutely conventional. So along comes Rosie Jarman, “the world’s most incompatible woman . . . late, vegetarian, disorganized, irrational,” with her thick-soled boots and spiky red hair. (An associated convention dictates that this free-spirited heroine must appear to have stepped out of an issue of Sassy from 1994.)

Don becomes increasingly involved with Rosie, despite her evident unsuitability for his “Wife Project.” (He divides his endeavors into “projects” with capitalized names.) She wants to identify her biological father, and Don, a professor of genetics, offers to help surreptitiously collect and test samples of the candidates’ DNA. Forced out of his tightly structured routine by this “Father Project,” he finds adventure and, inevitably, love.

It’s cheering to read about, and root for, a romantic hero with a developmental disorder. “The Rosie Project,” Simsion’s debut and a best seller in his native Australia, reminds us that people who are neurologically atypical have many of the same concerns as the rest of us: companionship, ethics, alcohol.

In fact, Don is a more complex character than he at first appears. What seems to be Asperger’s-induced haplessness turns out, at least some of the time, to be a kind of strategic buffoonery. Don’s differences are real, but he plays up his eccentricities: he likes to see himself as an independent thinker with too much integrity to make ordinary social and professional compromises. With a light touch, Simsion suggests that Asperger’s symptoms can interact, in opaque ways, with human qualities like pride and stubbornness.

Don’s literal-mindedness can make him an amusing narrator, as when he equably tells us that a date “had chosen a dress with the twin advantages of coolness and overt sexual display.” But his insensitivity to the nuances of human speech and behavior sets a limit on the depth of the supporting characters; we see only those traits that are blatant enough to register with Don. (Stronger dialogue would help, as it did in Mark Haddon’s “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”) As the DNA investigation unfolds, Rosie’s possible fathers blur into a mass of swabbed coffee cups and stolen toothbrushes.

“The Rosie Project” is the kind of Panglossian comedy in which everything is foreordained to work out for the best. That’s not a genre that can be dismissed entirely — at least not without sacrificing P. G. Wodehouse, which no one should be prepared to do — but it’s one that doesn’t comfortably accommodate things like autism spectrum disorders.

Halfway through the book, Don describes “the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human.” This would seem to be an obstacle to his and Rosie’s happiness — a greater obstacle, perhaps, than her low score on his compatibility questionnaire. Simsion waves the problem away in a post hoc last chapter. The ultimate convention of romantic comedy is that love conquers all, but to propose that it can so easily mitigate such a painful condition may be to take convention too far.

THE ROSIE PROJECT

By Graeme Simsion

295 pp. Simon & Schuster. $24.

Gabriel Roth is the author of the novel “The Unknowns.”

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The Rosie Project was originally written as a screenplay when Graeme Simsion studied screenwriting at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia in 2006-2007. By 2008, he had completed a draft of a screenplay called The Klara Project , a romantic comedy with the same premise as the subsequent novel but a different plot and a different version of the central character, who would later become Rosie.

After working with the script for a number of years, Simsion decided the premise would work better as a novel. By 2012, he had developed a book manuscript for The Rosie Project, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. This award sparked the attention of publishers, and Text Publishing purchased the Australian book rights. The novel was published in Australia in January 2013. The novel was subsequently published in the United States by Simon & Schuster, and in the U.K by Penguin Books.

The novel sold extremely well and was generally well-reviewed. It was awarded a number of prizes, including the 2014 Australian Book Industry Association's Book of the Year. In 2014, tech entrepreneur Bill Gates published a list of 6 books he would personally recommend, and The Rosie Project was the only work of fiction included on the list. Simsion published a sequel, The Rosie Effect , in 2014, and a third book in the series, The Rosie Result , in 2019.

Sony Pictures optioned the film rights to The Rosie Project in 2014, and Simsion contributed to drafting the script. Jennifer Lawrence was cast in the film in 2015 but subsequently dropped out of production to pursue other projects. The initial directors also left the project, and as of 2021, the film adaptation had not been released.

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Rosie is surprised that she is attracted to Don but is also very aware that initially, before he decides to make some changes and become somewhat less intractable than he was when they met, they are incredibly incompatible: she is a smoker, a...

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Claudia is is a good advisor for Don in his relationship with Rosie as she takes into account the mystery of emotions and also is able to advise him on the changes he might be wise to make if he wants the relationship to progress and flower.

What are the stereotypes explored in "The Rosie Project'?

Throughout the novel, various characters have to confront the idea that their initial assumptions may not have been correct. At first, Don is quick to assume that Rosie is not intelligent because he knows that she works at a bar, and he fixates on...

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Once you pop the cork on a bottle of champagne, the bubbly effervescence lasts only so long. That's what seems to have happened with the somewhat flat final novel in Graeme Simsion's initially sparkling Rosie trilogy, about a geekily charming geneticist whose spot on the autism spectrum is evident to everyone but him.

The trilogy began with The Rosie Project (2013), a screwball comedy centered on Don Tillman's hilarious campaign to find a wife — a process in which he learned firsthand that unexpected emotions can unleash both mayhem and joy. The Rosie Effect (2014) found Don and Rosie ten months into marriage, living in New York and expecting a child. Simsion wraps up the series with The Rosie Result, which is largely focused on Don's latest campaign — to spare his brilliant but awkward 11-year-old son Hudson the unhappiness he experienced growing up.

Dedicated to "the many people in the autism community who have inspired and supported these books," the social objective of The Rosie Result is clear from the outset: to dispel all-too-common misconceptions and prejudices about what it means to be "on the spectrum" — a phrase that recognizes varying degrees of autism, but which is increasingly bandied about to characterize anyone who is less than optimally attuned to irony and social niceties. Simsion's goal is laudable, and this book thoughtfully addresses the advantages and disadvantages of formal diagnosis.

It's not hard to see why the Rosie novels — like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) — have been welcomed by people in the autism community: Simsion's message of inclusiveness and embracing differences is lovely. But while this final installment may well educate readers outside that circle, it's less likely to charm them. It plods along to its heartwarming climax, generally more earnest than amusing.

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Part of the problem is that when Don's rational-to-a-fault approach to life isn't offset by Rosie, his sarcastic comic foil, he can sound about as engaging as a refrigerator manual. But Rosie's primary focus in this volume, alas, is on battling her sexist boss's attempts to marginalize her in what was supposed to be her new dream job.

Don, an "Einstein in overalls" whose default conversational response is "Correct," is still tightly programmed, with an idiosyncratic propensity for what he calls "time-sharing" — multi-tasking in pursuit of efficiency. (He learns the hard way that shucking oysters while doing squats is a recipe for disaster.) He tends to miss nuance, but his gaffes aren't as funny as I suspect Simsion wanted them to be.

Don's biggest misstep is what he refers to as the Genetics Lecture Outrage, a distressing consequence of his unfortunate, unorthodox response to a student's question about whether race has a genetic basis. (It involves lining up students by skin shade.) This leads to serious trouble, which Don might be able to mitigate by admitting to autism.

The Rosie Result addresses multiple forms of discrimination, including not just a tendency to label all but the "neurotypical" as weird, but gender prejudice as well. So for a variety of reasons, including marital equity, Don takes the lead in dealing with Hudson's problems adjusting to his new school after the family moves back to Australia for Rosie's job.

Don's approach to life is cerebral and methodical, and the Hudson Project (as he calls it) involves working his way down a long checklist of life skills he deems essential for happiness — including bike-riding, sex education, and making friends. This is a case of the clueless leading the clueless: For sex education, Don compiles a video of animals mating, which he gives to Hudson on his way to school. Oops.

The trouble is that Hudson interprets his father's campaign as a signal that he's not good enough the way he is. The rosy news is that while Hudson may share a lot of qualities with Don, he's smart and resourceful enough to devise several surprising workarounds.

A roster of atypical characters, including Hudson's albino friend (named Blanche!), whose father is an anti-vaxxer with serious anger issues, infuses some fizz. When Don learns that "Rabbit" Warren, Hudson's insensitive teacher, called the boy a "grammar Nazi" — fueling classmates' taunts — his comment is priceless: "'No filter,' I said, without thinking."

It quickly becomes apparent that father and son are on parallel learning curves, and both may be able to dodge some sticky situations by agreeing to submit to testing for autism. Why resist, then? A woman at a seminar on autism sums up the issue: "In the end, it's your choice, your identity. Diagnosis is for diseases." In the end, The Rosie Result is about learning to be comfortable with who you are.

Henry Cavill Starring In The Rosie Project

He might not be spending his days playing Superman, but Henry Cavill is very busy regardless. Following his duties on Season 2 of The Witcher , he's been filling his calendar with film work, including potentially leading the long-developing Highlander reboot and, the Enola Holmes sequel and Matthew Vaughn's new spy franchise Argylle . Yet he's also finding time for something smaller, with Deadline bringing word that he'll star in the adaptation of The Rosie Project .

This is one that has been in the works for a while now, since at least 2015. Written by Graham Simison, the book tells the story of professor Don Tillman, an autistic genetics expert who never seems to be able to land a second date. He starts The Wife Project, working up a questionnaire to find the perfect partner, but is instead entranced by the free-spirited Rosie, who matches none of his criteria but might just be his soul mate.

Jennifer Lawrence was attached at one point to play Rosie, while Ryan Reynolds flirted with playing the professor. Writers and directors passing by so far have included Richard Linklater , Catastrophe's Ben Taylor, Phil Lord and Chris Miller , Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber . Steve Falk is currently the man on board to write and direct, and while we wonder if having someone who looks like Cavill needing help finding love rockets this into fantasy territory, we're intrigued to see what he does with the role, assuming the movie comes together at last.

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THE ROSIE PROJECT

by Graeme Simsion ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2013

A sparkling, laugh-out-loud novel.

Polished debut fiction, from Australian author Simsion, about a brilliant but emotionally challenged geneticist who develops a questionnaire to screen potential mates but finds love instead. The book won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. 

“I became aware of applause. It seemed natural. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. But it was real.” So Don Tillman, our perfectly imperfect narrator and protagonist, tells us. While he makes this observation near the end of the book, it comes as no surprise—this story plays the rom-com card from the first sentence. Don is challenged, almost robotic. He cannot understand social cues, barely feels emotion and can’t stand to be touched. Don’s best friends are Gene and Claudia, psychologists. Gene brought Don as a postdoc to the prestigious university where he is now an associate professor. Gene is a cad, a philanderer who chooses women based on nationality—he aims to sleep with a woman from every country. Claudia is tolerant until she’s not. Gene sends Rosie, a graduate student in his department, to Don as a joke, a ringer for the Wife Project. Finding her woefully unsuitable, Don agrees to help the beautiful but fragile Rosie learn the identity of her biological father. Pursuing this Father Project, Rosie and Don collide like particles in an atom smasher: hilarity, dismay and carbonated hormones ensue. The story lurches from one set piece of deadpan nudge-nudge, wink-wink humor to another: We laugh at, and with, Don as he tries to navigate our hopelessly emotional, nonliteral world, learning as he goes. Simsion can plot a story, set a scene, write a sentence, finesse a detail. A pity more popular fiction isn’t this well-written. If you liked Australian author Toni Jordan's  Addition  (2009), with its math-obsessed, quirky heroine, this book is for you.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 2013

ISBN: 978-1-4767-2908-4

Page Count: 304

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: April 12, 2013

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2013

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by Hanya Yanagihara ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015

The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel.

Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.

Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees , 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot. There aren’t even many markers of what’s happening in the outside world; Jude moves to a loft in SoHo as a young man, but we don’t see the neighborhood change from gritty artists’ enclave to glitzy tourist destination. What we get instead is an intensely interior look at the friends’ psyches and relationships, and it’s utterly enthralling. The four men think about work and creativity and success and failure; they cook for each other, compete with each other and jostle for each other’s affection. JB bases his entire artistic career on painting portraits of his friends, while Malcolm takes care of them by designing their apartments and houses. When Jude, as an adult, is adopted by his favorite Harvard law professor, his friends join him for Thanksgiving in Cambridge every year. And when Willem becomes a movie star, they all bask in his glow. Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life.  

Pub Date: March 10, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-385-53925-8

Page Count: 720

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: Dec. 21, 2014

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2015

GENERAL FICTION

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IT ENDS WITH US

by Colleen Hoover ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 2, 2016

Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the strength of...

Hoover’s ( November 9 , 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.

At first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers; Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. They meet on a rooftop in Boston on the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend. Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home, but when Ryle starts to show all the same warning signs that her mother ignored, Lily learns just how hard it is to say goodbye. When Ryle is not in the throes of a jealous rage, his redeeming qualities return, and Lily can justify his behavior: “I think we needed what happened on the stairwell to happen so that I would know his past and we’d be able to work on it together,” she tells herself. Lily marries Ryle hoping the good will outweigh the bad, and the mother-daughter dynamics evolve beautifully as Lily reflects on her childhood with fresh eyes. Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle. Despite the better option right in front of her, an unexpected complication forces Lily to cut ties with Atlas, confront Ryle, and try to end the cycle of abuse before it’s too late. The relationships are portrayed with compassion and honesty, and the author’s note at the end that explains Hoover’s personal connection to the subject matter is a must-read.

Pub Date: Aug. 2, 2016

ISBN: 978-1-5011-1036-8

Page Count: 320

Publisher: Atria

Review Posted Online: May 30, 2016

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2016

GENERAL ROMANCE | ROMANCE | CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

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This was the first time I picked up a Graeme Simsion book and I was quite stunned. The writing style is so unique and witty, it kept me on my toes the whole way. I was eager to turn every page and before I knew it I had reached the end of the book!

Not much about the book can be revealed without spoiling the plot, but the story mainly revolves around a man named Don and his adventures of finding a suitable wife.

Don Tillman is not your average middle aged man. He is much more efficient, having his whole life planned out minute by minute. Due to this and his straightforward, not-so-normal behaviour, Don may seem hopeless of ever finding love, but as the story progresses you start to see the many layers of Don that peel away to reveal an insecure, lovable man.

One of the many unique things about this book is the hints about Don's Asperger's, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it so greatly. Since it is written from the perspective of a (possibly) autistic person, it's quite hilarious to see his take on situations.

Don is completely socially awkward and absolutely hilarious due to his blunt way of saying exactly what he thinks, leading this book to tell no ordinary love story.

I completely fell in love with the character of Don Tillman and I guarantee anyone else will surely enjoy his well developed personality just as much. Overall, I'd say it's more of a comedy than a romance but definitely worth reading if you want something lighthearted and heart-warming. I will certainly be picking up another Graeme Simsion book very soon.

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