Home for the Hoges was a bayside suburb of Brisbane. Robert's parents, Mary and Vince, knew that his life would be difficult, but they were determined to give him a typical Australian childhood. So along with the regular, gruelling and often dangerous operations that made medical history and gradually improved Robert's life, there were bad haircuts, visits to the local pool, school camps and dreams of summer sports. Memoir is the writing of one’s life, this would be so hard to do considering your book is called Ugly and is what you are calling yourself. I take my hat off to this author for writing his story.

Squashed by a giant clay splodge spread across the face. It has pushed so far into the front of the face that the beautiful eyes you made are now way further apart than they should be. The extra time you put into getting the size and shape of the head just right is totally wasted too. It’s bumpy and broken. Imagine what that sculpture looks like now and you’ll know what I looked like when I was born. Strengths: Robert's ability to write to a younger audience but have an adult audience enjoy the book as well is perhaps the greatest strength. He rivals JK Rowling with that ability, and he deserves the recognition. He also deserves a lot of credit for being able to write a story about being different and have it so warm-hearted. He put such a wonderful spin on something that could have been very terrible for him. I appreciate his work, and he deserves lots and lots of press for this book. The mother was struggling with a house full of children and an errant husband who didn't maintain them, yet the author fails to admonish him and his violence, reserving her hatred for the mother who remained and retaliated. Heaven help any domestic violence victims that enter her courtroom. The first few chapters were the worse for me. Most characters were described on their appearances, and not usually in a complimenting way, which I found odd considering that most of Clare's abuse was verbal slandering about her appearances. I would have thought she would be more considerate to people when it came to their looks.Her love is like an island in life's ocean, vast and wide, a peaceful, quite shelter from the wind, the rain, the tide. This bound on the north by hope, by patience on the west, by tender counsel on the south, and on the east by rest. Above, it like a beacon light, shine faith and truth and prayer and through the changing scenes of life, I find a heaven there.." - ANON Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness. Robert Hoge is a guy I see at science fiction conventions, I don't know him very well, so my curiosity was piqued when I saw he had a memoir coming out.

Young people want to talk about appearance and being different. It’s a central theme of their lives. Ever since the adult edition of Ugly came out I’ve had hundreds of conversations with kids about looking different and being disabled.So Mary decided it was time to explain to the other 4 kids exactly what was wrong with their new little brother. Everybody cried, but they all said Robert should come home. However, they hadn’t seen him yet, just heard Mary’s and Vince’s descriptions of the horrific tumour in the middle of his face and the half-formed, shortened legs.

I guess the helplessness of Claire kind of grabbed my heart. After a while, it got repetitive. Although that’s probably what happened in real life, I think it’d be better if the suffering was cut short and leaded to the healing instead. He has, umm.. How many houses?? And he didn't bother himself help his children in any sort of way!! >< Personally, I enjoy non-fiction books that discusses deep personal issues and traumatic experiences because it opens my eyes to the different possibilities to what life could have been like for me. In addition, the book ends with a chapter called “A Ray of Light” which reminds me that despite how dark things get in life, there will always be hope. The world Briscoe lived in is a reality that I may never experience in my lifetime which makes me realize that I should never give up trying to find the light on the other end of the tunnel because someone who had gone through worse was able to find it. Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles [adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v 36, no. 4 (Spring, 1979)] The book holds up as a memoir for adult readers as well, though overall it's not as strong as a lot of other memoirs I've read. There are stories that Hoge includes for no apparent reason except that he happens to remember that moment from his childhood; these don't tie in to the rest of the book in any way or have any sort of punch line to explain their inclusion. Since the book is pretty short, it doesn't take away too much from the overall impact to have some filler stories, but it did mean there were unnecessary weak spots in the book's flow.

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What I find distressing is thinking about how many more children are being abused right at this very moment around the world whilst I sit comfortably writing my irrelevant little book review just because I like to.

As for her being abused as a child, that I don't doubt and my heart aches for a child abused as she was STILL this book could HAVE been much better written.Other than physical abuse, Briscoe’s mother also verbally harassed her “telling [her] for years that [she’s] ugly”. Although physical scars fade overtime, emotional trauma is more complicated to heal as there is no “medication” that could be bought to help heal the wound. Even the physical side of the abuse always had an emotional aspect that came with it which impacted Briscoe’s overall mental health. Very sad story, dan di saat yang bersamaan sangat menggetarkan dan memberi semangat, kareana ternyata si kecil Constant Briscoe memiliki "Mimpi", dan kepada mimipnya untuk menjadi seorang pengacara hebat itulah dia berpegang. Karena keteguhan dan mimpinya yang besar itulah ia berhasil melewati berbagai penyiksaan, hinaan, kelaparan, hingga ditelantarkan.