Perks of being a wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

Synopsis:

Charlie is a freshman, and while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Staying on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. 

It's been a really long time since I read a book as good as this one. I've been wanting to read it for a long time, but I didn't have time since a couple of days ago. It caught me since the very first page, since the very first line. 

I can't believe it's already finished... I didn't want it to finish because of how much was I loving it while I was reading. I hadn't read half the book when I decided it has become one of my favourite books ever. The way Chbosky tells the story from the perspective of a freshman, and how he describes everything Charlie is going through is just amazing. 

The main character, Charlie, can be really naïve, but that's how we all were before growing up. He's a wallflower, and during the book, he tries to "participate". He goes through many tough things during his life, but he learns a lot just by looking around and observing people. 

The book describes the hardest moments, the hardest things, in life, from thepoint of view of a fifteen-year-old. The word that can better describe the book is "life", because that's what it is. 

I love how all of Charlie's friends, and his sister and brother, seem to know so much about life. I love how Charlie falls for Sam, because I just loved Sam since the moment she said "Hey, Charlie"... She seemed like a really good person, caring, intelligent... I loved how Charlie called Patrick "Nothing" before meeting him, because that was the nickname everyone gave him. 

And one of my favourite scenes was when they felt infinite. I just loved it. 
An the ending... Oh my god, the ending... I heard there's a lot of people who didn't get what Aunt Helen did to Charlie, and they had to re-read the book to catch it, but I did. It seemed the perfect answer to Charlie's sometimes strange behaviour, and it was a bit expected for some people, while the rest of them had no idea. It explains most things about the book.
So when I finished the last page and closed it, I just felt weird. It was one of the best books I've ever read, but it was the one who told the other part of life, the bad part, but being real. So it explains a lot of hard things to go through, like drugs, being lonely, sexual abuse..., but it also tells all those beautiful things about growing up, the first kiss, the first love, starting high school, making new friends, the love shared by a family, the beauty of a real friendship...  

So I think everyone should read this book. Now that I've finished it, I'm finally going to go see the movie. Let's hope it is as good as the book. 

Have you read it? Have you seen the movie? Did you like it?

Arrow.

Synopsis:

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira (Susanna Thompson), much beloved sister Thea (Willa Holland), and best friend Tommy (Colin Donnell) welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he's become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy). As Oliver reconciliation with those colest to him, he secretly creates the person of Arrow, a vigilante to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle(David Ramsey) while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel's father, Detective Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), is determined to arrest the vigilante operating his city. Meanwhile, Oliver's own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on- and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

A Twitter friend was totally obsessed with a new series called Arrow, so I just decided to try and watch the first episode to see if I liked it. When I did, it left me speechless. The plot is amazing, and the characters, even if it's a TV series, are really well-built.

I've only seen five episodes, but I think this Wednesday episode 16 will be airing. The show already has a really big audience, and many people are positively commenting on it in social networks.

Have you seen it? If so, did you like it?

Best writers of all time

I think we should not call an author "the best one ever" just because we've liked their books. That's what happened with Twilight. The books became really popular because of the movies, and everyone was calling Stephenie Meyer "the best writer I've ever read!" with no real reason. Personally, I have nothing against her, but she doesn't write that well, I think it's quite average. 

But I do not consider a writer awesome only because of their writing skills. Their imagination, the implication they put in their novels, has an important role in it. There aren't many authors out there who have an incredible imagination as well as an amazing way to tell the story. In my opinion, I can only make a short list...

- JK Rowling: she is incredibly amazing. Who can forget how wonderful was it reading the Harry Potter books? That's an unforgettable feeling. 

- Cornelia Funke: I just admire her so much... Inkheart and the ones that followed, Inkblood and Inkdeath, were just... There are no words to describe it... 

- Patrick Rothfuss: I love how he writes. I love his imagination. I love all of it. The name of the wind easily became one of the best books I've ever read in the second I ended reading its last page. 

Besides those writers, who have been writing in the last decade, I should also mention JRR Tolkien, the leader of the imagination. Even if the battle scenes in The Lord of the Rings can leave anyone so tired, he has the ability to leave us speechless.

Then there are all those writers who wrote classics everyone must read, just like Dickens, Stendhal, Tolstoi... They are classics. 

So what do you think? Do you agree? Who are your favourite writers?

Reading fanfics or short stories online

Who hasn't read a fanfiction online? Who hasn't posted or read a short story in Wattpad? Most of us have, because it's something we find really easy to do nowadays. 

Reading or writing a fanfiction is a great way to do whatever we want with the characters we love from a book or a TV series. Personally, I have fun reading them, even if they are mostly about thing that can't happen in the series. That's why I only read fanfics about certain topics, about certain ships in a series. Maybe they'll ruin my own imagination. Maybe they'll be so good that I'll stop watching the series because that's not how I want things to happen... All these facts are true, and we have to take into account that most of these fanfics, just like some Wattpad stories, are written in English by people who don't speak that language regularly (just like me). Some of them might be good, but some may be incredibly bad-written. 

I have written two short stories, if they can be named like that, in Wattpad, and I've read thousands of them! The problem in these sites is that the person who's writing the story might not upload in a while, and people get really impatient. Really. 

So, do you usually read something in these sites? Have you ever uploaded something there?

Less than a week left for The Indigo Spell!!

It's been a long time since The Golden Lily was published. And every single VA fan who continued the series with Bloodlines is now waiting for the third book in that spin-off.

We've been following Adrian and Sydney's journey together in the hot, not vampire-like Palm Springs, while they both protected Jill, with Eddie's help. May things happened in The Golden Lily, but something most of us are looking forward is Adrian and Sydney's relationship. He declared his feelings for her in the last pages of the book, and he even dared to kiss Sydney!! Does she like Adrian in that way? What will happen next?

Personally, I'd really like Adrian to be with Sydney, because that's something they both need. Fearless, cocky, un responsible Adrian Ivashkov needs logical, responsible, caffeine-addict Sydney Sage to knock a bit of sense in his head as much as Sydney needs him to help her live a more risky, fearless life. Their relationship would be nice, but I don't think Sydney's ready yet to accept a vampire that close to her. I mean, their friends now, but Adrian's still one if those "evil creatures of the night" Sydney's been taught to avoid.

I don't know how's this gonna end. What do you guys think? And about Jill and Eddie? Who do you think is Marcus Finch?

There are only 5 days left for February 12th!!! So get ready for the next book in this amazing series by Richelle Mead!!!  

Divergent, by Veronica Roth (Divergent #1)

Synopsis:

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue-- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is-- she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. 

That book left me speechless. I mean, how can someone have thought of that? After The Hunger Games, that's the beginning of the trilogy every teenage in this world will read. That's what happens when books are like this, even people who never open a book try and read it. And then they love it. And they thank me for recommending it. Just like it happened with The Hunger Games. 

The way Veronica Roth explains what Tris is feeling, the way it looks like she has everything planned since the beginning but there's no way we're going to guess the end of it, it's wonderful. It's a good book to read if you need action, love, and things happening at the perfect moment, not having to wait for centuries for the next thing to happen. 

Which faction would you choose? Candor, Erudite, Dauntless, Amity or Abnegation? 

Apologies

Can't believe it's been so long since I started the blog! I haven't posted anything since September, and it's already February! And it's not the first time this happens to me, and I don't like it. 

But I don't know where to take the time to write here from. It's just... I don't know if I'm really busy or just lazy. I'd like to promise I'm going to write sooner, and post many things and comments, and book reviews and everything, but I just don't know if I will. So I won't say anything. 

I just hope I'll be back soon.