![]() ![]() In addition to struggling with appropriate social skills and her lack of any conversational filters, the 29-year-old Glasgow resident lives a rigid life doing the same thing at the same time every week. ![]() Furthermore, though the story swings into extremely dark and crushing moments more often than I was expecting (not complaining, by the way) there’s such a vital sense of kindness at its core that made it hard not to feel tied to these characters, and deeply affected by them.Ĭhief among them, of course, is Eleanor herself - she’s stuck so far down in a rut of her own making she’s long since forgotten what existing as anything other than “fine” even is. ![]() It’s quirky in that The Rosie Project and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? kind of way, written with a sense of humor that often flies above the head of its own protagonist. And by all that I mean: wow, I loved Eleanor Oliphant. But, as I happily discovered after finishing another über beloved book last summer, sometimes the hype is very much worth it. That’s been the case for quite a few super-popular novels I’ve read lately, where I go in with my expectations high only to be disappointed. I was expecting Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman to be. ![]()
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