Reading in the Garden

3 Books that Restore Your Faith in Humanity. Recently, the question was posed on The Great American Read Facebook Book Club: What is a book that restores your faith in humanity? Below are three titles that caught my eye — books I am looking forward to reading. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Soon to be a movie. From the back cover: Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive—but not how to live. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal for lunch every day, and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted—while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all he