Good point about the bedroom -- I suppose arguably at that point River herself is just as much a paradox as Amy is, since one of her parents never existed either! However ...
I just went back to replay it, and I'm not sure she is really acting like she's never been there -- she certainly seems to recognise the house immediately, when she arrives she asks the Tardis "why have you brought me here?" She's very wary going in -- I think we were meant to assume at the time it was first shown that she didn't know the surroundings, but looking at it now I think her caution and uncertainty works just as plausibly as being due to the place being half derelict and that someone has obviously been there. The shock when she spots the storybooks and the photograph could equally well work as sudden recollection of a childhood memory and a realisation of what it means -- she does go straight to them out of all the objects in the room, after all.
Of course, I may be giving Moffat too much credit for subtlety here and maybe she really isn't meant to know what's happening at the time. She definitely doesn't know they're Auton duplicates by the time the Tardis explodes though. (Duplicates yes, but then there are all sorts of duplicates in the Whoniverse, many of which River would presumably know about, and there'd be no reason to immediately assume an Auton?)
Incidentally, I'm wondering now: why was there a photograph of Amy and Rory there if he's been wiped from the timeline?
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I just went back to replay it, and I'm not sure she is really acting like she's never been there -- she certainly seems to recognise the house immediately, when she arrives she asks the Tardis "why have you brought me here?" She's very wary going in -- I think we were meant to assume at the time it was first shown that she didn't know the surroundings, but looking at it now I think her caution and uncertainty works just as plausibly as being due to the place being half derelict and that someone has obviously been there. The shock when she spots the storybooks and the photograph could equally well work as sudden recollection of a childhood memory and a realisation of what it means -- she does go straight to them out of all the objects in the room, after all.
Of course, I may be giving Moffat too much credit for subtlety here and maybe she really isn't meant to know what's happening at the time. She definitely doesn't know they're Auton duplicates by the time the Tardis explodes though. (Duplicates yes, but then there are all sorts of duplicates in the Whoniverse, many of which River would presumably know about, and there'd be no reason to immediately assume an Auton?)
Incidentally, I'm wondering now: why was there a photograph of Amy and Rory there if he's been wiped from the timeline?