13 .. and insane

Just today, I began to read the book Girl 15 Charming but Insane by Sue Limb. I am not done yet but just reading what I have read so far I have a good idea of what type of person the main character Jess is.


At first when I started to read this book just by the cover I thought it was just your regular book about teenage girls and there normal life. With school, non-understanding parents and boys. However, as I got into the book I did notice that, that was what the book consisted of but it told the story in new funnier ways. I think it was because of the ways Jess handled her situations she came encounter with, were things that not every day teens would do. Jess went through many problems as of what I have read so far. Like any other girl in life, goes through like how sometimes you may envy what other people have weather its material or just growing in ways or places, you do not.


During reading the book, I did refer back to my social justice unit that I am studying in school now. I did think deeply that it was not just Jess wanting what others had. It showed me how girls do go through extreme lengths to get what others have. In the book, there is a big party but while Jess is getting ready, she feels that every other girl more developed in the chest area, so Jess decides to stuff her bra with bags of soup to feel like the other girls. That was just one of the extreme ways girls try to be like others Also her stuffing her bra wasn’t just to be like other girls it was to impress the boy she liked. I think it is the point that some people try to make when they say that magazines advertise women that have big boobs are butts. Today in America most women struggle with there image and self-confidence, and this books was really a way to show how some teenagers deal with it.

I have not finished the book but i am only 45 pages in and this is they ideas i have gotten from the book, I cannot wait to finish it and see what other crazy things jess does just to fit in.