Reading response
Book: Me and the Blondes
Author: Teresa Toten
Pages: 10- finish
I've been reading this book on my own a lot and it's so short, it was easy to finish. Except the entire time I was reading it, Sophie, the main character would always throw me off with her constant changing opinions of people. One minute she'd be talking about how pretty and cool one or "the blondes" are, then the next they're an air head. I think she just wanted to convince herself they were all fake. Throughout her friendship with blondes she would always bring up how she was only using them as a shield so she would be liked, but I kept forgetting because it definitely seemed like she did like them.
Sophie surprised me a lot, I thought it was kinda gross when she went for a "practice boy", so that she could be more experienced for her crush, Luke. Especially since she went for such a gross guy, I don't really understand! The one thing that got me so annoyed is the author never said whether he got with Luke or not. I mean that's the main thing I was looking forward to, really disappointing. Although I guess in the end everything worked out so it kinda helped.

Weekly response # 1

Book: Me and the Blondes
Author: Teresa Toten
Pages: 10
Dear Ms Mclauchlan,
Within the first ten pages I read I was a bit confused figuring out the main character, Sophie. She's clearly a strong, intimidating and humble girl, yet she's got her mind set on being popular at this new school, which I don't understand. Why does she care about that?
I didn't understand why she was so concerned about her social status when I read the first few pages, then around the end of the chapter she talked about her old schools, and how her dad went to prison for murder, and being known as the murderers daughter. So I understood why she wanted to be liked, and start over.
So far She's made it very clear she doesn't want anyone to find out about her dad, her and her mom killed him off so that Sophie can feel normal.

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