Review: Saah Baehr Captures Shame
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
This is the 2nd book of Baehr's that I've read, and it was just as impressive as the first. I love Baehr's voice and writing style and her ability weave such great stories out of such seemingly ordinary people and events. The protagonist of this book struggles with body image, weight, and overeating, and the high point of this book for me was the way Baehr truly captured the shame that comes with having an addiction like this one. Very, very compelling stuff.The characters were engaging and felt very real to me, and some of the main character's thoughts left me snickering under my breath like I was there. And it's so well written it's really hard not to love it.I bumped it down a star because the Kindle edition I read was missing some opening and closing quotation marks that really threw me for a loop as I was reading. Also, there was a fair amount of real estate descriptions, which was too much of a repeat from the first book I read of Baehr's, "One Hundred Open Houses".Kelly I. HitchcockAuthor of [...]