These are your November Reads. Take your pick from November 9, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine or Don’t Save Anything.
November 9
Author: Colleen Hoover
November 9 is the day Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist – just a day before her scheduled move to a new destination. They get instantly attracted to each other and spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. together; her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration for Ben’s novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineAuthor: Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. But things change when she 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.
Don’t Save Anything
Don’t Save Anything
Author: James Salter
‘Don’t Save Anything’ is a volume of the best of Jim’s nonfiction articles, published but never collected in one place until now,’ reads the preface to the book by his wife Kay Eldredge Salter. This collection gathers the celebrated author’s thoughts on writing and profiles of important writers, observations of the changing American military life, and evocations of Aspen winters, musings on mountain climbing and skiing, and tales of travels to Europe.