by Liz Moore
Listening to this story about shame and social fears, and the resulting social isolation and loneliness, was a thought-provoking experience for me. The story is structured around two main characters, indirectly connected by a shadowy third, in separate storylines that don’t converge until the very e...
I wouldn't normally have chosen to read a novel about a morbidly obese middle-aged shut-in ex-academic and a High School student and wannabe baseball star with anger management issues but I'd heard that Liz Moore had a strong, distinctive, voice, so I tried the audiobook. It was an excellent deci...
Refreshing and unexpected We expect our movie and television characters being beautiful, successful, or rich. Even when they are ordinary people, they often have beautiful homes and wear great clothes. Literary characters are also often rich, successful, charismatic, or beautiful; if not, they po...
This was different than I imagined it to be, but not in a bad way. I actually really enjoyed it, despite at first being put off (as usual) with the grammar chosen by the author.At first I had a hard time understanding Arthur's circumstances, and much preferred reading Kel's parts of the book. But it...
First of all, my rating would be 4.5 if possible. Heft has two main characters. Recluse Arthur Opp weighs about 550 lbs. and has not left his NYC brownstone in 10 years. High School senior Kel Keller is facing the uncertainty of life after high school and reconciling who he is and who he pretends ...
Liz Moore has written a book so heartbreakingly honest, I felt I was listening to the characters talk directly to me. Their voices were so real. She managed to convey the inner most thoughts and emotional conflict of both a teenage boy with dreams of the major leagues and a 600 pound reclusive profe...
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