Date: April 22, 2025
Author: Graeme Simsion
Title: The Rosie Project
This was so much fun! This reads (to me) like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory looking for a wife and having come up with the perfect questionnaire to find the perfect wife, Don, the Sheldon-ly similar protagonist proceeded to eliminate most of the possibilities quite easily.
Of the applications one in particular shone brighter than the others. The only lady to meet all required criteria happened to love ballroom dancing. So, Dan set about to mastering this skill. Being as he is a career scientist he had access to a roll-around skeleton. Perfect for practicing complex dance moves.
Turns out one can memorize a dance choreography but one cannot memorize rhythm and thus the two were not meant to be.
Dan’s best friend was helping him sort through questionnaires and found his friend a possible candidate, knowing full well she not only did not match any of the criteria. Regardless, he had a hunch Dan would go ga-ga over Rosie. And he did. Rosie told him the story about not knowing whom her genetic father was but had a list of possible suspects. Don embraced this as a challenge and threw himself into what they coined the ‘father project’ eliminating from the list of her mothers’ graduating class to finally find her true, genetic father. It was quite entertaining the things Don and Rosie pulled off, in order to not so ethically get ahold of the potential parent’s DNA.
Although incompatible as life partners they made great sleuthing partners. Until they didn’t. Emotions got involved and both parties shied away from the possibility of true love, rebelling against the possibility that a questionnaire was not the most reliable way to find your life partner. Which will win in the end? Logic? Or love?