The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

I loved this book! I got this book from a program I am doing with my temple and started to read it because it was just over the number of pages I needed to finish my independent reading (It was 220 and I needed 150). This book is about a young man who has a mental disorder. He is really good at math and science, but does not like being touched and doesn't understand people very well. He frustrates his parents because he only likes to do things a very specific way. The main character's name is Christopher. He lives with his father because his father told him his mother was dead, when she really wasn't, which was absolutely horrible! But because of his disorder, Christopher was not angry about this. The original goal of this book was for Christopher to find out who killed the dog who lived next door. Christopher is very determined to find out who did it and it ends being his father. He gets really scared of his father and runs away. This book gave me a new perception on different people and that they are basically normal but they think about things differently then we do. This book reminded me of the movie Rainman because the main character of Rainman and christopher were very similar. Overall, I loved this book and would recommend this book to anyone.

Perfection By Julie Metz

This book was a recommendation from my mother because we have similar taste in books. This book was about a typical American family, the mom, Julie, the husband, Henry, and a young daughter, Liza. One day, Henry just dies. no warning for any of his family or friends. As understandable, Liza and Julie are very upset. But, when Julie's friends are going through Henry's office, they learn that Henry had had several affairs. They knew about one one of them but learned about the others from emails and letters. Julie finds out about this and freaks out, defriending one of her friends who had an affair with Henry and whose daughter was very good friends with Liza. This book had an overall good plot but got very wordy and description-ish, which got very boring! She describes her whole love life, during her relationship with Henry and before, which bored me a lot! The more action-based parts were pretty good, like when she was yelling at her husband's mistresses and learning about the affairs but a lot of it was boring description. Overall, this book was okay.