Reading Response/log- 8-26-13

This book, Perfect, was not what I expected even when I thought I had a pretty good explanation from a friend. Before I started reading this book, I got a reasonable summary from my friend and it really caught my interest. Isabelle, an 8^th grader, has just suffered the loss of her father and is struggling with her strive to become “perfect”. As her mom finds out about her bulimic actions, she sends her to a therapy group to run into an unexpected classmate. As Isabelle gets to know one of the girls from her grade from this group, they develop a relationship and have get-togethers where they share the times for their binge eating and making it come back up. It is interesting how Natasha Friend describes her situations so deeply and expresses them where I feel like I am right there with her or living through her emotions with the details the author gives.

Perfect by Natasha Friend

8/19: 30 mins- 18 pgs.

8/20: 30 mins- 20 pgs.

8/23: 20 mins- 16 pgs.
8/25: 40 mins- 30 pgs.