The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sometimes in your life, you read an amazing book that really touches your heart.  You can relate to the characters almost too well, and you find yourself thinking about it in your free time, wondering what will happen next and how it will end.  And once it does end, you just want to flip to page one and start reading it over again.  Have you ever read one of those books?

A few minutes ago I finished one of those books, and I wanted to write about it while it was still fresh in my mind.  It's called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.  It's about a boy named Charlie, and it's written in the format of letters he writes to an anonymous person.  The person isn't really important to the story, it's just so the author can write in first person and letter format at the same time.  The book is the letters Charlie writes to the anonymous person during his freshman year of high school.  He talks about the books he reads, the music he likes, and his friends.  I feel like going into much more detail might ruin the book for you.

This is what the book looks like:

One of my friends had recommended this book to be a while ago, but I forgot about it.  Then, a couple weeks ago, I was in a book store.  I like going to bookstores sometimes because they're a lot bigger and nicer than libraries.  Also, they organize the books differently.  All the classic literature is on one display.  And they have all the vampire books on one section so you know not to go over there.  And some bookstores have books on tables that are all kind of similar.  I would love to work in a bookstore because  I've always wanted to make one of those displays.  Anyway, I was just wandering through the aisles, picking up things that looked interesting and steering clear of the vampire shelves, when I saw this book on the table.  The cover was really interesting and so bright that it caught my eye, so I picked it up.  And I remembered my friend telling me to read it a while back, so I bought it.  And I read it.  

And it was amazing.  That's really the only way to describe it.  It was beautiful, thoughtful, simple, deep, and amazing.  

Also, I when I googled it to find the picture of the cover, I found out that they're making it into a movie that comes out in 2012.  And that Emma Watson is playing one of the lead characters.  So now I feel like the movie is in good hands.  

Anyway, I really recommend reading this book.  <3