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The Title Says it All.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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  Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel. And that pretty much sums it up for me. While at a work luncheon, talk turned to recent books we’d read. I mentioned Eleanor Oliphant as a recent read and found myself in a sort of impromptu book club. It seems the algorithms are working because _everybody_ has read this book. I was in common company- most of the responses to the book were, “yeah, I liked it. It was fine.” A couple of people liked it […]

Get ready for a rollercoaster of emotions!

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  Wow! What a book! In a nutshell this book is about loneliness. The book is written from the perspective of Eleanor. We learn more about who she is and her history as the book progresses. Most of the clues seem to come from her interactions with people and what they say to her, as Eleanor is different yet content with not fitting in. She is a creature of habit with little social skills and prefers to keep to herself. As the book progresses, Eleanor […]

Completely fine. 100% fine. a thousand percent fine.

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the debut novel for author Gail Honeyman. The book rights have sold for huge sums worldwide and the movie rights now belong to Reese Witherspoon’s new company Hello Sunshine. In writing Eleanor, Honeyman has created a character I would love to get to know – She is unfiltered, forthright, smart, funny and profoundly lonely. Eleanor has no interpersonal skills, no social skills, no concept of what opportunities life could hold for her and she is very very real, there […]



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