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Task #20: Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK
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By Book Riot · 90 posts · 1679 views
last updated Dec 31, 2020 02:39PM
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See me talk about this briefly in my May wrap up: https://youtu.be/47JHKR_6JAs?t=1m42s
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Now I understand why people have been raving about this book.
This book was much harder to read than I expected. As a person who cringes with second hand embarrassment, I found Eleanor’s awkwardness difficult read page after page . The last third of the book grabbed me, but getting there was a slog.
Loved this book.
Ms. Honeyman expertly portrays the reality of modern day loneliness. The yearning for human touch freely given, the stupors achieved in order to avoid dealing with the lack of it.
I won't go too much into the plot as there's so much there that I don't want to ruin it for a future reader.
It's wonderfully written - from the point of view of a Ms. Eleanor Oliphant - and it's brutal, and sad, and true, and you'll feel like you've actually met Eleanor by the end of it all. That she's n ...more
Ms. Honeyman expertly portrays the reality of modern day loneliness. The yearning for human touch freely given, the stupors achieved in order to avoid dealing with the lack of it.
I won't go too much into the plot as there's so much there that I don't want to ruin it for a future reader.
It's wonderfully written - from the point of view of a Ms. Eleanor Oliphant - and it's brutal, and sad, and true, and you'll feel like you've actually met Eleanor by the end of it all. That she's n ...more
Strange but interesting. Eleanor is like no character I’ve discovered before: sad, pathetic and so abused. Good story with a twisty ending.
Jun 11, 2018
Booktart
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
contemporary-fiction
I expected to love this more than I did but I still think Eleanor is such a great and original character.
Aug 20, 2017
Nicki
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
top-10-of-2017,
read-in-2017
Aug 07, 2018
Grace
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2018-reads,
reese-book-club
Jul 25, 2018
Alisa
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
book-club,
reese-s-book-club
