Type: Fiction, Love Story
My rating: 5 stars (out of 5)
Why I chose it: This is book #2 in my Love Story Trilogy.
What I liked about it: I was again treated to rough-cut pages, but only in the trade paperback edition. (The hardcover has straight-edge pages.) I also enjoyed that this book was written in the epistolary form. In this case, as the title suggests, most of the book consists of diary entries.
Near the beginning of the book we learn the story of the five balls:
"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life."
This life lesson is a theme that is returned to throughout the book and will stay with you long after.
This book explores many different forms of love, including the love between a man and a woman and the love between a parent and a child. The main character spends most of the book trying to understand how her recent perfect relationship seems to have suddenly come to an end. Hint: The answer is in the diary.
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