Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

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He also wrote a book on the Guinness Scandal, an insider's guide to the City and guides to the philosophy of Maynard Keynes and the legacy of Margaret Thatcher in the well-known Introducing series. I loved experiencing everything through their eyes as they realized they had feelings for each other. Confused and afraid her secret will be discovered, Ellyssa runs away, embarking on a journey where she discovers there is more to her than perfection. For Harley and Douglas, the failure to fit a particular idea of gender role contributes to their status as outsiders.

Perfection has plenty of action, danger, conspiracy, evil villains, and romance, and takes place in postwar setting in which the Nazi's were the ones who won the war, instead of the way we know it. The Idea of Perfection is literally about a bridge: a fictitious wooden span near Karakarook in rural New South Wales. Julie Metz’s life changed forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapsed on the kitchen floor and died in her arms.I love how strong he is and I love how the romance between he and Ellyssa wasn't like a insta-love, love-at-first-sight thing. At no point was her language confusing (although she does use the metric system, so if you are unfamiliar with that you may be a little lost). I really liked how things ended and how it was left open, without a cliff hanger, for future installments to a series.

Like Douglas, I’ve been taken up to the top of a major bridge under construction in Sydney, and was rooted to the spot by vertigo. That quote was my touchstone as I wrote a book about two people who fall in love in spite of their flaws. The three characters whose thoughts we are permitted to know—Harley, Douglas, and Felicity—are all influenced by society’s expectations about what a man or woman is supposed to be. 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 pacing was spot on, it was slow enough for me to enjoy the details, yet fast enough where I never felt bored.Curran takes us on a journey to better understand the nature of perfectionism, how it affects us, where it comes from, and why it is on the rise. As a result she never takes the leap that they both do, into an authentic engagement with another person. The history of the gym is also a history of the human body: its real and idealized forms, artistic representation and public and private presentation. With Of Mice and Men the meaning of the book centres on doing things for the greater good even if you don’t want to do it. Harley Savage, a tall, unfashionable woman with a love of folk artifacts, has come to Karakarook to help establish a heritage museum.

eye roll* I like romance in books, but it happened too quickly and they felt too strongly for each other.

Framed from an artist’s perspective and spanning a diverse range of artworks that question how ideas of perfection shape our personal identities and our social and political systems, On Perfection considers the multifaceted nature of lens-based practices. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1950, Kate Grenville holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Colorado.