(DEC)Eleanor Oliphant Discussion

[Vanessa]

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely 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 time-tabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

Then 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.

[Meera]

I finished this last week and I absolutely enjoyed it. It was a little slow for me in the beginning but once I warmed up to Eleanor, it moved fast.

[Vanessa]

SO I just finished The Chalk Man and decided to read this one next. I can't wait as I have heard many different kinds of reviews about this novel. Hopefully I can hang in there I'm a quitter when it come to slow starts.

[Vanessa]

WOW. This book was more than I was expecting it to be. I loved it so much!

[Emily]

Meera wrote: "I finished this last week and I absolutely enjoyed it. It was a little slow for me in the beginning but once I warmed up to Eleanor, it moved fast."


I thought it started slow too, but ended up enjoying it a lot.

[Evonne]

i so loved this book. i agree it's a little slow to get into at first, but it picks up soon after.

[*Patrice]

Not a BOTM pick for me, I read it as a library loan. I'm going to sound much like everyone else...I ended up liking the book very much by the end, but it was a bit hit and miss for the first half at least. It would grab me then lose me, grab me then lose me...but the last third of the book had my complete attention. Not a re-read for me, and I'm glad that it was not a purchase.