genre: contemporary fiction
Don Tillman is an organized thinker. And an organized doer. He likes his orderly, predictable existence as a genetics professor at Australian university. And if his life isn't full of friends, he doesn't mind it, but he does know that he'd like to have a wife. At some point. As long as it's the RIGHT wife. And so he embarks on the "wife project" in which he creates a questionnaire to help him choose the most desirable subject to pursue. Except life isn't ever that orderly and for Don, social situations and conventions require a skill set that is not his speciality. Enter Rosie. Who throws a giant wrench into his project and his life with a project of her own - a project he is uniquely suited to assist Rosie with. But at what cost to his orderly life?
Okay. This is dang cute. And funny. Not laugh-out-loud but I did chuckle and several parts were funny enough I shared them with my sisters who also enjoyed it. It's chick-lit but not really a romance novel, per say. Some language in here but also a lot of heart as Don tries to figure out where he can improve and what's worth looking hard at in his own life. I appreciated Don as a neurodiverse main character - yes, he's quirky, but also very articulate about what's happening in his brain as he struggles with things that happen so effortlessly for most people. It's not completely believable but I enjoyed the ride.
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