Author: Gail Honeyman
Published: May 9, 2017, by Penguin
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Genre: Fiction
First Sentence: When people ask me what I do—taxi drivers, hairdressers—I tell them I work in an office.
Blurb: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.(GoodReads)
My Opinion: Not sure what it was at first since I couldn’t get into this book. Then I finally caught on to Eleanor’s humor. Once there, I was right with her. Yet, the waves kept coming. Her hopes, her dreams, her devastation, and then, unexpectedly, the conclusion. I didn’t see it coming. Now, all I see is her courage.
I know Eleanor is only a character in a book, but Gail Honeyman made her real. So real that Eleanor will stay with me for a while, and one day I will reread Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine to see what I missed since the ending blindsided me.
Blurb: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.(GoodReads)
My Opinion: Not sure what it was at first since I couldn’t get into this book. Then I finally caught on to Eleanor’s humor. Once there, I was right with her. Yet, the waves kept coming. Her hopes, her dreams, her devastation, and then, unexpectedly, the conclusion. I didn’t see it coming. Now, all I see is her courage.
I know Eleanor is only a character in a book, but Gail Honeyman made her real. So real that Eleanor will stay with me for a while, and one day I will reread Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine to see what I missed since the ending blindsided me.
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