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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

Start date: April 1, 2022

Finish date: April 30, 2022

Why we're reading this: “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / Fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up he…more
[close] “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / Fell behind on my classmates, and I ended up here”
– this is me trying, Taylor Swift (Folklore)

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Aug 19, 2022 alifetimeofliterature rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower deserves all the love that it has gotten over the years. I want to say that I never gave up on Charlie. There were times where I was scared for his well being but I never and will never give up on Charlie. Having to survive through a new year of school can be hard especially when there are different situations around you that can lead you down different (dark) paths. Charlie in a way helped everyone around him or at least he tried his best to. In my opinion him be The Perks of Being a Wallflower deserves all the love that it has gotten over the years. I want to say that I never gave up on Charlie. There were times where I was scared for his well being but I never and will never give up on Charlie. Having to survive through a new year of school can be hard especially when there are different situations around you that can lead you down different (dark) paths. Charlie in a way helped everyone around him or at least he tried his best to. In my opinion him being around older groups of people was both a good thing and a bad thing. I wish he had had his friend to get through his first year of high school with, I don’t know if it would have made a difference but it was always a thought I had while reading the book. Reading the chapter with his Aunt Helen had me close to tears in both my class and on the bus because it was so expected yet unexpected in a way. But later reading I found out what happened between him and his aunt in times when they were alone and that crushed my heart. What happened between Charlie and his Aunt Helen was unexpected to say the least but it made me understand in some aspect more about him and showed him and me who were gonna be there for him in his times of need. Because he deserved people around him who cared about him at the end of the day. This book will truly stay with me forever. I am so proud of Charlie for getting though his tough times and making it out in some way. If I could I would give him a big hug.

My two favorite quotes from this book would have to be:

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

This is so true in today’s age where we just accept the bare minimum because it's what we think we deserve. This could be because

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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

You will go through times in your life where you will feel like you’re walking on air and nothing can harm you and that’s amazing, especially after going through other times in your life where you feel like you are worth anything.

If you are ever in the position where you have some free time I would definitely recommend picking up this “classic” young adult fiction about a boy who is just trying to get by day after day, minute by minute.

In the end Charlie was another character that I have read about over the years that has taught me that I am not alone. And that I matter enough and will always matter to at least one person around me, even if that one person is only me.

“Once and for all. Forever and always.
You are not alone.” ...more

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Jan 15, 2025 Diego rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2025

Related to the movie at 13. Related to the book at 25.

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Mar 11, 2021 Mariana Barletta rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, classics, contemporâneo, lgbtq, coming-of-age, rory-gilmore-reading-challenge

o jeito inocente que o charlie escreve a história... realmente me quebrou, apesar do formato de cartas não ser meu preferido.

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Jan 23, 2023 Niko Taylor rated it it was ok

Insert me in high school.

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Apr 01, 2023 Brianne Gayfer rated it it was ok

Shelves: ya-fiction

2.5 stars. Partly I think I am just not into this level of teenage angst at this stage of my life but also I just felt like everyone was taking advantage of Charlie the whole time and it was icky.

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Sep 26, 2022 Nina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: recommendations, ya, coming-of-age, childhood-fav, 2022

i don’t really understand why kids in high school still have to read the catcher in the rye when they could be reading this. the book deals with a lot of different topics that people have to deal with at that age. i’ve seen some reviews that criticize this book because there are “too many things going on” or because not every issue was resolved by the end, but isn’t that what high school is like? it doesn’t seem unrealistic to me, and i don’t think it’s strange that the protagonists don’t have e ...more

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Jan 12, 2024 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Me siento con el corazón arrugadito por charlie y su historia, si existiera, lo pondría en una cajita de cristal para que nada malo le volviera a pasar.

Me gustó mucho el libro, se lee muy fácil y rápido, entretiene y se te pasan las horas (o al menos es lo que me pasó a mí). Estoy feliz de que este haya sido mi primer libro del año, tenía mucho tiempo que no terminaba un libro completo y este lo terminé sin problema, me ayudó mucho a salir de mi bloqueo lector.

Para mí se merece las 4 estrellas: ...more

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Jun 22, 2022 Rameen Tahir rated it it was amazing

i don't like to read a popular book because since so many people have already read it 'it'll never be mine' but this book is. it IS mine. it is everyone's. ...more

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