By: Gail HoneymanPlot: This is about a woman named Eleanor Oliphant and she is completely fine, but maybe she isn't really.
My Thoughts: My first book of the new year and it was a good one! I really enjoyed this book. It's hard to not like Eleanor. She is so blunt and awkward and weird, and yet you still really like her. Her relationships with other people, and how she interacts with people, was very entertaining to read. The random things she would say to strangers were my favorite.
I loved her friendship with Raymond. I like how it was so innocent in her mind and he really just was a friend. Her obsession with the "rockstar" is definitely more like something a teenage girl goes through, not someone in their thirties. So it's hard to read without cringing all the way through, because you know exactly how that's going to go. You just can't help but root for her through all her awkwardness.
I called parts of the ending for sure. I had questions about her mother, that whole thing seemed fishy, her calling every week. But it honestly did take me by surprise. It really is so dark and sad, what happened to her, in a seemingly lighthearted book. It explains exactly why she is the way she is and it's just really sad. I liked the way she started working through it all though, and it ends on a good note which I really liked!
Favorite Quotes: "If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say."
Rating: 4/5 I really enjoyed it. The quirky Eleanor character is what makes this book good.