Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!" --Reese WitherspoonNo one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. 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 social interactions, 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 on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.
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To be honest I started reading this book because Amazon crammed it down my throat and the title seemed intriguing. I couldn’t get into it at first. I almost stopped reading it ....two or three times. But then this simple act of kindness shatters the walls she has built around herself. I’m glad I hung in there till the end.
Eleanor initially comes across as slightly....odd!
However, she is a very intellectual and intelligent young woman.
She enjoys her routines. Gets up at the same time, worked the same job for 9 years, reads the same paper at lunch, talks to "Mummy" on and Wednesday evening and buys her vodka and pizza from the same shop on a Friday night.
She keeps her own company, apart from when she's around coworkers of a weekday...which shes fine with.
But th...read more
This is funny and poignant. As it begins, I suspected that Eleanor was simply a quirky young woman, maybe on the spectrum. The story unfolds and she intentionally reinvents herself and begins to make human contact. Her surreptitious acquaintance with Raymond and the things she learns about modern culture and friendship are delightful.
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