Word Garden Word List--The Rosie Project

 

Hello, my Sunday savants, it's time once again for a new Word List! This time our source is Graeme Simsion's delightful 2013 novel, The Rosie Project. Yes, as is often the case, I am late to the party; in fact, the Rosie franchise has spawned several sequels since this original. In fact, I would likely never have picked this book to read at all if not for that personable Canadian booktuber booksaresick, who recommended it. (He also recommended--and I read--John Green's Looking For Alaska, another one I would likely never have read, and would have been better off for it, except for knowing that I won't be reading any further John Green novels, their popularity be damned.) But, back to The Rosie Project. 

Graeme Simsion

It's a rom-com of a different color, featuring a hidebound genetics professor who doesn't realize that he's an "aspie" and whose Asperger's Syndrome makes it seem to make sense to him to find a wife by using a lengthy and extremely specific questionnaire to weed out the smokers, vegans, slobs, etcetera. Naturally, this fails spectacularly, but when he meets the completely unsuitable (as per his questionnaire) Rosie, a delightful and very funny romance begins. 

What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new, original poem of our own. Then simply link up, visit others, and then find yourselves bewitched by someone out of left field, or by a book like The Rosie Project. 

And now, your List!

arms

art

breakfast

clown

correct

dance

emotional

fever

finesse

freeze

glass

mania

museum

normal

overload

popped

project

reminding

swings

wad