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June 2019 BOTM - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Really excited to read this one😊😊
maybe its time that i finally read this one. joining :)
It officially starts tomorrow right?!!
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yeppers!
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in fact I upped it in my TBR after Em's reco.
I own a paperback. Just bought. I'm super excited!
+1 It's gonna be fun :)
Finally...
I love this book... Had read a paperback...
This is one of the best books I read last year, enjoyed it a lot..
The expectations are too high. I couldn't finish Becoming though
I loved this book. One of my rare 5 stars.. will get an excuse to reread it with everyone
started...I thought Eleanor might be like Britt Marie or Ove... but no she is something different...
And I have a gut feeling that her story will make me sad
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but I surely do say..this is one of the rare books that I haven't forgotten the plot of.
it is that dramatic and tenacious.
I completed a few pages. This book is unlike all the books I have read, very different. Also, I haven't came across any of the characters like Eleanor yet. I don't know how it is going to end.
At first, Eleanor reminded me a lot of Holden from The Catcher in the rye. But she grows on you- as does the rest of the story! I wrote about the book here: https://www.hookedtobooks.com/eleanor...
am in chapter 4... I just don't have any feelings about it yet.. :)
In chapter 13..Except Eleanor, everyone seems to be having a normal past.
Yet Raymond's life seems pretty secret, though we meet his mother. I think he is keeping a secret...
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if you consider the ending , haven't met someone like her , combining both qualities ..
On chapter 22..... Eleanor has changed and she's trying to indulge in normal life. I am very happy for her. Raymond is also likeable. I don't like Eleanor's mother at all. She is kind of scary but I still don't understand what she did. She is in prison right?
Finished it.A 5 star read for me...
I loved the book, though Eleanor was not what I expected.
I just loved the way the story was told.
Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "am so hoping for a sequel ☺️" me too! want to know more about Eleanor and her mother.
Am exactly half way through (50%) and I adore it so far... That moment when E says no one ever bought her a lunch ever... !!
I finished first chapter of Bad Days... omg...!! am honestly perplexed.. What IN the hell is happening!!!
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I am really loving this book
I finished it...I think it's the top notch representation of social anxiety and loneliness.. ! :)
Shoa wrote: "Sharath wrote: "I finished first chapter of Bad Days... omg...!! am honestly perplexed.. What IN the hell is happening!!!""
U captured it exactly xD
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I think it's the top notch representation of social anxiety and loneliness.. ! :)"
+1. Also, on how we judge people. Sometimes our judgement is right and people turn out to be good and at others it is completely opposite.
Em Lost In Books wrote: "Sharath wrote: "I finished it...I think it's the top notch representation of social anxiety and loneliness.. ! :)"
+1. Also, on how we judge people. Sometimes our judgement is right and people tu..."
Agreed... Ill not give away anything for people who havent finished it yet but yes, i was literally awed in that bus scene.. Its soo true.!
Sharath wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "Sharath wrote: "I finished it...I think it's the top notch representation of social anxiety and loneliness.. ! :)"
+1. Also, on how we judge people. Sometimes our judgeme..."
Yessss!!! I completed it a few days ago and I don't know how to describe it but the bus scene was one of my favorites.
Finished. Now it’s on my favourite shelf. But I must say end really surprised me.
I'm on chapter 9 and I should come here later 'cause this place is full of spoilers! :p
I hadn't been reading fiction recently, but I am glad I picked it up. Loved it thoroughly!! I finished it only a few sittings. The Good Days, Bad Days, Better Days is done beautifully. And her journey is so subtle, at first it feels like nothing, but slowly it snowballed.All in all, excellent read.
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Agree.
Shall read again, some day
Every company I've ever worked for has had at least one Eleanor - the socially awkward and unapologetically unusual woman that nobody quite understands. The book made me stop and think more about why we shouldn't assume they are just 'odd' and to consider that there might be really good reasons for their unusual ways.I'm conscious that it's also a very British book. I wondered if any of the social references were hard to non-Brits to understand.
This is a beautiful book.. loved reading it...
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Hi Barbara, I agree with you, that this book makes us stop and think about people we pass as nutters but many people just don’t read so a movie should be made. To spread the awareness about being sensitive toward such people and also about mental health ( that they want help, and situation can be controlled).
was waiting for all the opinions. Had read 10% but couldn't connect with Eleanor. She knows twitter, instragram ..n all social media apps to check the presence of that guy she fancies initially but doesn't know if she needs a desktop/laptop. I couldn't connect for the major part with Ove in A man called Ove too. It got better in the last 1/4th. Thought this was something like that. Will give it another go.
I liked this book. Just finished. There are some good lines of poetic brilliance. I worked with a completely different Eleanor. There are so many Eleanors from UK just like so many Svetlanas from Russia.
Bought my copy today.
I am almost close to finish reading this book, heard so much about the twist at the end. A nice read so far.
Lovely book! I am sure many of us could relate to one or the other characteristic of Eleanor. I certainly did! Loved the ending too, not what I was expecting.
Or, have they?
I think this image sums it up pretty well.
Blurb:
No 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.