“You’ve made me shiny, Laura,” I said. I tried to stop it, but a little tear ran down the side of my nose. I wiped it away with the back of my hand before it could dampen the ends of my new hair. “Thank you for making me shiny.”
Good Reads Synopsis
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 as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.
My Review 3.0/5.0
I have to admit that when I first started reading "Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine", I began to wonder what all the rave reviews were about. Sure, Eleanor was quirky and sometimes amusing... but for the first 100 pages, I felt myself losing interest in all the narrated details going through her mind.
After almost putting the novel down, I encouraged myself to keep reading. Towards the end of the story, I developed a liking for animated Eleanor Oliphant and her friend Raymond. Her approving love for Tesco made me giggle. I began enjoying more of her thoughts as her personal story unfolded. The end of the novel was not rushed, and played out to be the perfect ending to the quaint, colorful story. Did I find myself drawn to tears like some reviews stated? No.. but I did find myself empathizing and rooting for Eleanor.
This can be a nice rainy-day-read. With rumors of a motion picture being made, I suspect it will have an old-timely British, Hallmark feel.
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