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"We accept the love we think we deserve."

Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

February 23rd

2020

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"Las ventajas de ser un marginado" - Stephen Chbosky. #Chbosky #StephenChbosky #LasVentajasDeSerUnMarginado #Frase #VCF https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCKOA5B6qY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ldskh6hu8yiz

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E incluso si otra persona lo tiene peor, eso realmente no cambia el hecho de que tú tienes lo que tienes

Las ventajas de ser un marginado

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🕺 Moi c'est Jordan, j'ai 24 ans et je viens de déménager en région parisienne ! J'ai fini mon Master l'année dernière et je suis monté vers la capitale pour trouver un travail qui me comble !

J'aime le fantastique, le young-adult et les dystopies !

Maintenant passons au tag !

1) Le livre que je continue de lire et relire sans jamais m'ennuyer ? Harry Potter et Le monde de Charlie (The perks of being a wallflower), en general je ne relie pas souvent des livres, mais ceux là…. 😉

2) Combien de livres j'achète par semaine ? 1 ou 2 ! Et en période où c'est la fête….5 ? 😂😱

3) Combien de bibliothèques dans ma chambre ? Tous les livres rentrent-ils ? Je viens de déménager donc je n'ai qu'une petite bibliothèque pour le moment, je manque déjà de place pour les livres que j'ai pris avec moi cela dit 😇

4) Combien de livres lis-tu par mois ? 4 ou 5, ça dépend des périodes ! ✌️

5) Un livre que j'aime et que je déteste à la fois ? Aucune idée ! 😂😂😂

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Review: Imaginary Friend

“We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.”

Book: Imaginary Friend

Author: Stephen Chbosky

My Rating: ✯ ✯ ✯ (3 Stars)

Read: February 13, 2021

Synopsis:  

Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary friend. We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on.

My Review:

Well, that’s the last time I pick a book up blindly because a booktuber that I like said she loved it. So to be quite frank it was my fault for choosing to read a book that was not at all my cup of tea but I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it whatsoever so I am giving it three stars. It was a well written and developed book but it was just too out there for me and so far from any realm of possibility or reality that it was hard for me to take this book seriously and I forced myself to get through it because I have a hard time DNFing books. Plus, I am one of those people who likes to venture outside of her comfort zone so I gave it a chance and just because it was not for me I could see others loving it who are more into fantasy and probably have bigger imaginations than me because I have none.

Imaginary Friend is about a boy who moves into a new town with his mother, who is running away from an abusive relationship and how things start to go crazy after he goes into the woods and is missing for six days after. The plot itself sounded interesting enough to me but was a lot more than I bargained for. I thought it would be more rooted in reality but it was so fantastical that I had a hard time imagining all the weird happenings and growing attached to the characters in these impossible situations. I think I will be taking a long break from horror after this and will be sticking to my more realistic thrillers that seem more plausible and just touch me differently.

Further on, the characterization was probably the strongest point in this book and even though I rolled my eyes a lot at what was happening, I still found myself worried and stressing for all of the different personalities in this book  and rooting for them to come out on top. They all had their quirks and flaws and I loved seeing how they all struggled in life one way or another because a lot of times we find ourselves wishing we had someone else’s life without knowing what that person is actually going through themselves. I just wish the fantastical aspect would have been toned down just a bit and I would have grown attached to the characters even more but they ended up remaining at a distance to me.

Thirdly, the writing was problematic for me. I have been wanting to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower ever since watching the movie but I will not be doing that anymore because the writing was too much to stomach for me. There were too many descriptions and elongated sentences and they in turn took something away from the actual story in my opinion. There were a lot of instances where I had to go back and reread sentences to make sure I wasn’t missing something crucial or significant from it. The overwhelming writing style along with an overly action-packed plot made for one difficult novel for me to finish. Also, what was done in 700 pages could have easily been done in 500 or less and would have been a lot more impactful. 

In conclusion, I realize that I am probably not the right reader for this novel but even so there were too many issues that I had with it and had to force myself to get through it so I could move onto other novels. Putting the lack of reality aside, this novel was nothing but overwhelming in every sense of the word and I will not be recommending it to anyone in the near future. It could make a good tv show I think but too many things are up for interpretation and there’s nothing much concrete to hold onto at all. For people who love thrillers like me and even horror based more in realism, I would advise you skip this one and save yourself the time of reading a 700 page novel.

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please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you. ― Stephen Chbosky