Reading Wishlist

Books I want to read
1. The Fault in Our Stars
2. Water for Elephants
3. The Kite Runner
4. Better off Friends
5. Message in a Bottle
6. A Bend in the Road
7. The Lovely Bones
8. The Life Next Door
9. Its Kind of a Funny Story
10.Dash & Lily's Books of Dares

Book 3

                                                             Perks of Being a Wallflower
                                                                        Stephen Chbosky

Perks of Being a Wallflower is a great book about high school and what goes really goes on in different people’s lives. There are some things you don’t know about a person even if you hang out with them every day. This book makes me want to be friends with the people in the story. Charlie is a freshman who doesn’t really have a lot of friends at first and is shy. Charlie ends up meeting a group of kids to hang out with. Patrick and Sam are siblings; Charlie hangs out with them the most.  As you get more and more into the book, it makes you want to become friends with each character because they are so fun, different, and unique.  The book shows you what it’s like to be a misfit in high school and how when you think that you are the only one who doesn’t fit in, you really aren’t.  Every character in this book was different in some ways, but they all came together. The book will make you want to be in high school and will make you want to find new friends. There is an interesting twist at the end of the book, which was really sad and emotional. There is so much to anticipate in this book. The book is a quick read and you’ll really get into it. I really liked the quote “I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.” It make me want to laugh because it is true, but at the same time, it is sad how people really don’t get along and are not always there to be your friend, but rather, your enemy.

I think that everyone can relate to this story in some way or another.  The style of writing is a viewpoint through Charlie’s diary when you’re reading this book. One will feel every emotion possible as you go through the diary entries. Charlie is experiencing everyday life like everyone else. He as to put himself out there and make new friends and go to new places, just like most people have to do when starting high school. “You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.” I like this quote a lot because it is true, you want to take care of everyone in your life and be there for everyone, but the truth is you have to go and do what you love the most with your life. This next quote I like because some kids in high school stay with one guy or girl for a long time and that is fine, but some of the situations aren’t always that good. When most of the time we do deserve to be treated better.  “We all deserve the love we think we deserve.”  But, by the end of high school, I have learned that you can do whatever you want to do if you really try because anything is possible. There are a lot of ups and downs in high school and in life, but you have to stay strong like every character in this book. “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”  I really enjoyed this story and I think that every high school student should take the time to read this book.

I would give this book an overall rating of 4 out of 5 because I like the way the book is written. It really makes you feel a part of the story.  It takes you on a journey through high school like no other. Everyone has their own story just like Charlie, Sam, and Patrick did. This book will make you think differently because you don’t always know the story behind someone. I have not seen the movie yet, but everyone I have talked to said the movie is just as good as the book. I think people should read the book first, because as with any book, it adds more to the movie.

#9 Character Reflection

 

My character is very likeable. He is kind of shy because he has gone through a lot in his life and I don’t think he really knew how to handle anything at first.  Charlie’s best friend committed suicide and now Charlie has just begun high school. He doesn’t have a lot of friends and wants to make new friends. He  ends up becoming friends with a group of kids that are really out going and crazy and kind of a misfit in there high school. The kids take him to parties and show him the other side of life that he hasn’t experience yet. I think Charlie is likeable for high school or college students because they can relate to just starting high school and being nervous and not knowing how to handle different situations in life. He’s also likeable to other people who have had to deal with a death or suicide in their life. You don’t know how to react to anything when things traumatic like these events happen. Charlie is learning is going through all different kinds of emotions during the book. You get to read and see Charlie grow as a person. Things he has to go through like every other kid. Being awkward at first in high school, not knowing how to talk to a guy or girl that you like, want to go to parties but not get into trouble these are all events most kids are dealing with in high school or college. Charlie becomes friends with many different people throughout the book.  Sometimes you think that you might not fit in somewhere but the truth is that no one really fits in anywhere. Charlie is an amazing character I would be friends with him anytime and anywhere. More people need to take the time and read a good book like this. The book so far is teaching me so much about life and people. Charlie put himself out there when he first started high school and I sometimes wish that I would have had done the same the same thing when I first started high school.  You really don’t know who you are or what you want to do with your life until you meet new people and experience new things in your life like Charlie is experiencing. All of his friends are brave and outgoing and aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. Charlie and his friends are the most likeable characters.

#6

 Readicide is becoming a problem in school. Students aren't becoming involved in our society. Kids are being more focused on their phone with social networking. Kids are used to using slag and like the drama happening in other kid’s lives and the drama on televisions. Kids don’t understand what is happening in our world today. We don't understand how lucky we are to have us much. We go to school and learn new stuff but, kids aren't connected to the real world. When kids are done with high school they have to go out into the real world and get jobs.

I don’t think that we should have genre fiction because you aren’t learning that much from those books. We have enough time on our own to read whatever type of book we want to read for fun. I believe that schools should make us read books that we would usually not read outside of school because that’s the reason we are in school, is to learn something new. We need to learn about the different types of writing though out pass. Old English and different poets, it’s something we need to read and understand. Those types of reading make us think more. We have to think more creative and try to understand the text.

 We should want kids to read books anyways because different books make us look and think about things differently. Every time you read something new you are learning something new too.

#8

How true does a book have to be to be considered nonfiction I think that the book should for the most part be very true. I think the only acceptations to lie in your book is for if you don’t want someone to the person that you are talking about or if it’s something that will affect someone else life in a negative way which they don’t want.

Half-truths are not ok in my opinion even if it’s still a good story. I say this because it’s like your story isn’t good enough unless you lie. Why lie about a story that didn’t really happen to you. If you are a good writer you can tell the story in a different way in which people will like and it will be the truth. It does matter that Frey or others memoirist bent the truth to their story because like Frey writes about a girl dying in his book and how he was part of it when he really wasn’t is wrong. Think about how people who knew this girl and were a part of her lost feel about the book. Memoirist should be honest. There is no good reason to lie.

I believe that David Shields is right for the most part. We do need to label something fiction or nonfiction. Sometimes I think I does matter a lot because it just makes it easier for people to a read a book that they know if it’s true or not. But sometime I think that we make such a big deal over whether it’s this genre or that genre. At the end of a book we should judge because someone put a lot of work into the book for the most part or I at least hope they did. I think that we should judge someone’s book because it’s wrong judge and we don’t like to be judge. Even though everyone judges everyone else.