Review: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Eleanor Oliphant is more than completely fine she is fabulous. This book is happy and sad and funny, sometimes all at the same time. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and Eleanor has been coping aided by large quanties of vodka. She dreads her mothers weekly calls but can't stop them. Stopping to help an old man who has fallen down is the start of finding friends and the courage to say goodbye to Mummy for good.

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Book club update!

What makes a young adult book a young adult book? We had a great discussion about this.

Why do grown ups read YA?

• rekindle childhood memories
• nostaligia
• break from being an adult
• keep in touch with child side
• not as challenging as adult novels
• less 'adult' content

Sophie is reading Sex & Violence by Carrie Misrobian

Picked it because I actually quite liked the concept of it. Mr Brown was surprised by the title.

She also read Please Ignore Vera Dietz by AS King

Bryon is reading Noah's Law by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Sophia is reading Ask The Passengers by AS King. The family are weird but distant. 

She's looking at reading The Miseducation of Cameron Post next after she recently saw the film.

NZ Book Awards 2018

The winners have been announced. Follow the link to hear an interview about the winners and check out the display in the library.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363672/aotearoa-the-new-zealand-story-wins-children-s-book-award

NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS 2018 - WINNERS

Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award $7,500

Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, written and illustrated by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House)

 

Picture Book Award $7,500

I Am Jellyfish, written and illustrated by Ruth Paul (Penguin Random House)

 

Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction $7500

How to Bee, by Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)

 

Copyright Licencing Award for Young Adult Fiction $7500

In the Dark Spaces, by Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)

 

Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction $7500

Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, written and illustrated by Gavin Bishop (Penguin Random House)

 

Russell Clark Award for Illustration $7500

Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts, written and illustrated by Craig Phillips (Allen & Unwin)

 

Best First Book Award $2000

My New Zealand Story: Dawn Raid, by Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith (Scholastic New Zealand)

 

Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for the best book in te reo Māori $7500

Tu Meke Tūī!, by Malcolm Clarke, translated Evelyn Tobin, illustrated by FLOX (aka Hayley King) (Mary Egan Publishing)