Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Secrets of a Family Album


Title : Secrets of a Family Album
Author : Isla Dewar
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing

“Love changes beauty. When you love a truly beautiful person, they cease to be perfect and you love them more because you, and only you, know their flaws. That’s what makes them yours, the secrets of the flaws. And when you love, for want of a better word, a ugly person, they become beautiful to you. That’s part of the love, the fact that you know they are beautiful.”

And there it was - this one paragraph in the very first chapter “Beauty and Acceptance”. It spoke to me. Never mind that I have already exceeded my reading quota for the month and should probably rest my eyes. This is one book I was determined to explore.

Of warmth and wit
Of spirit and spunk
Of hurt and heart
Of pain and poignancy
Of brothers and sisters
Of feud and familial
Of brothers and sisters
Of children and creatures
Of loss but so much about love

It was frankly, a joy of a book.

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