The Perks Of Being A Wallflower- Quotes

I started reading the novel "The perks of being a wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky and i love the format .... it is written as a series of letters from a narrator, Charlie, to an anonymous “friend.” Charlie is a teenager who is about to enter his freshman year of high school and he describes various scenes of his life over the course of one year in these letters. The events Charlie describes in his letters involve a mix of the usual and not-so-typical teenage problems. The letters never get boring, and you can always find yourself relating to something (being around the same age)

Ive been reading this novel for about a week now, and the writing in this novel is unlike anything I've ever read before. I never really get into books but i really love this one. You know when you read a line and you have to go back and re-read it 2 or 3 more times? I usually do that all the time because i get so distracted with everything. But i go back to read it again, not because I didn't understand it, but because I am so taken back by it's beauty that I want to keep experiencing the depth of it's words and aren't quite ready to move on.  I have done this over and over again while reading.  A few lines that really grabbed my attention were:

"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be."

My Sisters Keeper

DON'T READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BOOK!!! ...

and dont read this book if you dont want to cry...its guaranteed to happen!!

Ive been sick...so i havent gotten to post anything yet, so i have a very long post about the whole book.

I started reading "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult this summer and just finished it a couple of days ago. I am going to share what happens and the main story that goes on throughout the entire thing. This book is very sad, especially if you have a sister who is close to your heart.

 

The book focuses on the struggles of the Fitzgerald family as a result of their daughter Kate’s illness – she suffers from APL, a form of Leukaemia. She was diagnosed when she was two, and at sixteen she has undergone many surgeries, transplants and tests.  Her sister Anna is three years younger than her and was a designer baby – she was born specifically to act as spare parts for Kate, and has spent her whole life donating bone marrow, promyelocytes, tissue and more to her sister. Kate needs a kidney and Anna will have to give Kate hers, but she decides that she has had enough and looks for medical emancipation by suing her parents for the rights to her own body. This tears her already-fragile family apart at the seams.

In the novel, each family member is highlighted through their own words, as too are other key characters involved in the case, such as Anna's lawyer Campell Alexander and her guardian ad-litem Julia Romano. The book was written in a format that enabled the reader to get a deep insight into each charaters mind; I could clearly see what each character was thinking, how they felt, their reaction to the case and also their reactions to Kate's illness. Despite the main story of the novel being centred around Kate, none of the story was told from her perspective, except the final chapter, which is written after the case ends and the devastating events that follow have occured. Each chapter was written in the first person from the point of one of the characters, almost like a diary. (This is my favorite)

On the front cover of the book it posed the question; “If you use one of your children to save the life of another, are you being a good mother or a very bad one?” I found while reading the book that this question regularly ran through my mind. It certainly is a very difficult question to answer and a very debatable subject. This makes the novel very interesting and made me want to keep reading. During the court case Sara makes the point very clear that she loves both of her daughters equally. I think Sara's character is probably the most hard to understand as a teenage reader but in the end it was clear that Sara loved her children and was just doing what she believed was in her sick daughter's best interests.

I really enjoyed reading this book because it opened my eyes to some of the most touching, poignant and thought-provoking subjects written about. I thought that it was very inspiring, especially as the novel was partly inspired by a true story. It made me think a lot about what real problems are. I thought the book was very philosophical and I found that the many twists in it (especially the ending!) made it a very interesting, enjoyable and emotional read. Definitely a book I'd recommend; I'd give it 10/10!