![]() Charlie details his freshman year by the day or week depending on whether anything of interest occurs. The plot meanders as Charlie narrates his freshman year of high school, but it gets credit for not building up to an overhyped prom and prom-related activities for its conclusion. His writing isn’t forced, but it may take a few pages before you get the flow of it. He begins each letter “Dear friend” and closes with “Love always.” It would be easy to dismiss his style as simplistic, but he’s so earnest and honest I found his voice endearing. They’re conversational, intimate letters, though the person receiving them doesn’t know Charlie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is written as a series of letters by a fifteen-year-old boy named Charlie. I know this makes me superficial, but the back promised it was “unique, hilarious and devastating” in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye or A Separate Peace. ![]() It fit so nicely in my hand that I couldn’t think of returning it to the shelf. Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is oddly shaped and a slender 213 pages. ![]()
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