Eloy Moreno

Eloy Moreno

Spanish writer

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Biography

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Biography

The writer Eloy Moreno Olaria (Castellón de la Plana, 1976) is popular for the novel The Green Gel Pen (2011), which he self-published and distributed himself. The career of this author, a Computer Engineer who worked in a computer company in his hometown, begins in 2006, when he stands in front of the computer with the idea of ​​writing the novel that he himself would like to read, a book about day-to-day life that passes through the reader's gaze and remains in their memory. And so, after two years fully dedicated to it, The Green Gel Pen was born, a story through whose pages the protagonist shows us a reality today: how the work routine can make us waste all our time and, in consequently, our life. With this novel written meticulously and with a realistic and sometimes distressing style, Eloy Moreno managed to captivate readers, of course, after hard work to make it known. Thus, once he had written down to the last line, he himself took charge of self-publishing and printing it to begin distributing it to bookstores with little success and rejection from some who told him that he was not following the correct path. But the author did not cease his efforts and continued touring the bookstores until he managed to put it up for sale in some of them and, thanks to this and word of mouth from himself and his parents, the first copies began to be sold and readers began to to write reviews on the Internet that caught the attention of the Espasa publishing house, which was finally in charge of distributing it throughout Spain, reaching today more than 200,000 copies sold, in addition to having been translated into languages ​​​​such as English, Italian, Dutch and even Taiwanese.

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Biogrphy part 2

With a small niche already forged as a writer, Eloy Moreno continued his career with his following works, What I Found Under the Sofa (2013), a story set in Toledo in which he analyzes social behavior, that which leads us to do what we want. we criticize so much, and Stories to understand the world (2015), a collection of old stories that recovers and rewrites adapting them to the current language and situation. With this collection of stories he achieved success that has allowed him to publish two more editions, Stories to understand the world 2 (2016) and Stories to understand the world 3 (2018). In between, the author has published other novels, The Gift (2015), a reflection on our way of life loaded with social criticism and sensitivity, and Invisible (2018), a story told through the vision of a child who focuses in the desire that we all, at some point, have to be able to be invisible and an emotional story that even educational centers have proposed as mandatory reading. His latest works are Tierra (2019), Together (children's stories from 2021), Different (2021) and I want it all (2022). His latest novel, When It Was Fun, is a change; Eloy himself warns that it is not for everyone, dealing with how routine, comfort, and security can stifle a relationship. Thanks to his narrative style focused on social criticism without losing sensitivity, the author has achieved the recognition and support of readers, those who believed in him from the beginning and the new ones he has captured along the way, as well as numerous awards such as the 2011 Onda Cero Castellón Prize for the effort made in the dissemination of The Green Gel Pen and the 2017 IES Benjamín de Tudela Novel Prize for the novel The Gift.

Books

Invisible-2019

When it was fun-2022

The gift-2015

What I found under the sofa-2013

Different-2021

The green gel pen-2009

Earth-2021

Stories to understand the world 1,2,3-2017, 2020, 2020

Book report

Invisible

Invisible in my opinion is a great book, it's very interesting and it adresses many topics that should be attended in real life. It talks about an intelligent boy, he was the best in his class and everything was great, until a maths exam changed his life. It was a Friday, on the last class; the class was seated by list number and he got seated in front of the bully. The exam started, he finished before everyone and just stayed on his seat "reading" his exam, when the bully whispered to him: "sheee... sheee... Give me your exam so I can copy" -No, we'll get caught- He whispered back. Then the bully got really mad and shouted "No? NO?!? How dare you say no to me!!" The teacher heard the comotion and quickly got to where the boy and the bully were, the boy quickly handed his exam and went home without waiting for his friends, Kiri and Zaro, before heading home, our "invisible" boy went to his secret hideout. He wrote something on his list (a list that was on the wall), he checked the hour and waited some minutes before shouting with all his lung power "10,9,8,7,6,5" and he ran out air.

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Book report: part 2

He grabbed his things and headed home wishing his parents weren't there before him.He arrived home, went upstairs to his room and just sat on his bed reading comics while waiting for his parents and little sister.After that his day went smoothly and weekend arrived. He woke up to threats on his phone but he just ignored them and turned off his phone. The weekend went by and Monday arrived he got ready to go to school. His parents had already gone to work and his sister to daycare before he woke up, he prepared his breakfast and went out. He first picked up his friend Zaro who lived just a couple of blocks away, then they both went to pick Kiri and finally got to school. On their way, Kiri asked our "invisible" boy why he hadn't answered to her texts. He lied and told her that his phone ran out of battery and he didn't find the cable. That day at school was where it all started. The bully started spitting, throwing things and made the "invisible" boy trip.Then, at recess, the bully came up to him and took his lunch, The "invisible" boy got very red out of anger but didn't do anything. From then on his nickname was "tomato boy".

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Book report: part 3

To make this short, he was bullied and the bullying got out of school. His bullies chased him into a small place full of tall grass and bushes. He has been there may times with his friends, but, it's been a long time since he was there and didn't know someone put a wall in there so there was no scape, then he heard the sound of wasp, when he looked up there was a hive of wasps. He thought that if spiderman was bit by a spider and got powers, why wouldn't he get powers by being stung by a wasp? Instead he got stung 5 times in the hand, had an allergic reaction and was sent to the hospital. Then he developed "superpowers" like being able to hear more sounds, hold his breath longer than the average human and to be invisible almost at will. Then the bullying continued and at one time the boy just couldn't take it anymore and went somewhere near his hideout, the train rails. He started the countdown: 5.- The train's lights could be seen 2.- The boy snaped but it was too late 4.-The train was closer 1.-The boy closed his eyes and was hit by the train 3.-The train's conductor honked to try to get the boy snap out of it

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Book report: final part

Several days later, the boy wakes up in the hospital, at around 6 am. He gets a panic attack but remembers how to calm himself down.He inspects the room he's in, he's still in the hospital with his mom grabbing his leg, still asleep on the bench next to him. That day someone special was coming and he didn't know. He was visited by his friend (and crush) Kiri. After a little fight between them Kiri just leaves quickly with a mix of anger and sadness. The next day he's visited by another doctor, he asked what kind of doctor, his mom responded, she's going to help you with your internal wounds. When the psycologist came, our "ex-invisible" boy said he wasn't crazy and denied to open on the first session. But then he started opening up and told her about his powers. This story is messed up. It starts with the end, Continues whith the beginning and ends with the climax of the story. But it has deep frases like: "Cuando uno quiere ser invisible después no puede culpar a nadie por no verle." or "El problema es que nunca he llegado a controlar bien ese poder: a veces, cuando más ganas tenía de ser invisible, era cuando más gente me veía, y en cambio, cuando deseaba que todos me vieran, era cuando a mi cuerpo le daba por desaparecer"

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