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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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8.6 (80 Ratings)
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Bit of a limp ending (0 more)
Eleanor Oliphant - social misfit
Honestly one of the best books I’ve ever read! Eleanor Oliphant is the best heroine ever! I just really identified with her as a socially awkward, slightly anti social woman. The difference is that I have autism and she’s that way due to her mother. I’m not going to go into that though, read it!

The end sort of petered out but it’s definitely a book that I would read again.
  
The Rosie Project: No. 1: Don Tillman
The Rosie Project: No. 1: Don Tillman
Graeme Simsion | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.3 (13 Ratings)
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Heartwarming, hilarious and bittersweet
Graeme Simsion's protagonist is utterly brilliant, a good look at some of the social anxieties faced by people on the autism spectrum. While some were a little blatantly obvious - repetition and empathy - others were hidden by quirky mannerisms expressed by awkward geneticist Don Tillman. Good at raising awareness on the subject, it makes it understandable to those who have not come across those with these symptoms.

The plot is intriguing right to the end, a mystery wrapped up in a romcom.