Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

Product Information

Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling to find their footing in a world of impossible standards. When we meet Ellyssa one of the first things she does is enjoy the emotion of panic, because it’s an emotion and she was never supposed to feel. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Spelbring mentioned Of Mice and Men which I got excited about because I have read that book, and loved it too pieces. After running away and being taken by the Renegades Ellyssa starts feeling more than she ever knew she was capable.

Eric Chaline has produced a compelling history that illuminates not just the culture of the gym but also our shifting obsessions with the body through three thousand years. Gathering a wide range of contemporary evidence, Curran offers “a clear-eyed look at how perfectionism and its capitalistic ‘obsession with boundless growth’ has contributed to mass discontent and insecurity” ( Publishers Weekly). Though he admits this won’t necessarily be easy with the forces of today’s culture working against us.Curran makes a convincing case for the role of both the economy and culture in creating an environment that amplifies perfectionism. I wanted to put a little atmosphere of irony around them, the way tone of voice might do in a conversation. I loved going along for the ride that was Perfection and anyone who loves a good dystopian need to pick this one up. Woody's gradual friendship and love for Ellyssa feels more normal, but of course she doesn't "understand" that he loves her. She not only meets a groups of people, renegades as they were known, who she was always taught were a menace to society, impure, and barbaric, but she comes to know, love, and must learn to trust them, but will they trust her?

If you're looking for something a little different where the characters will weasel their way into your heart, then pick this one up. Finally, the policeman captures Elyssa`s love and takes him to The Center, the headquarters of the Nazi experiments.The book is important in helping readers to recognise that perfectionism is not, in fact, something to be desired, celebrated or endorsed. But, for now, Curran suggests, we must “meet the world where it is” and accept what we can’t control (211). The novel is told in the third person, but you also get multiple POVs from the other characters in the story, which I found interesting. The Perfection Trap offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling to find their footing in a world of impossible standards. Desk and exam copies of certain titles are available to lecturers who wish to consider books as course texts.