The Perks of Being a Wallflower
is kind of sort of probably the most beautiful thing I have ever read. Ever. Really.
I started it yesterday morning, then had to go to work. And the whole time I was there I was thinking about it, and wanting to go home so I could carry on reading. So basically as soon as I got home, I started reading again and was reading all afternoon, and was kind of getting distracted by the TV and people talking to me, but I was still so into it.
Anyhoo, I put it down to watch NCIS and then everyone was going to bed, so I sat in my room to finish the book. And idk, I guess because I was alone and it was silent and I was managing to get completely engrossed in the book, I just started crying. Like, I was maybe 20 pages from the end and all these tears just started pouring down my face, and they didn't seem to be sparked by anything in particular. I think it was just everything about the book just suddenly hitting me because I was alone and so absorbed in it all, and I just couldn't stop crying.
So I was just sat there with all these tears streaming down my face, trying to read, and having to keep wiping at my face and it was so overwhelming. And when I finished the book, I just sat there, staring into space, crying like crazy. It's not even like the book was sad as such. (I mean, when I read Requiem for a Dream, I was cried so hard because the ending was just so devastating.) But with this book, it's like, the whole story was just so beautiful and sweet and touching, with this underlying sadness, and it all just hit me while I was sat in my room in the silence reading it.
It really was just so beautiful and it all really touched me, and I felt so stupid for crying the way I did, but just omg. I don't think anything has touched me like that. (ok, that could be interpretated in a completely different way, shut up.) And then because I was crying so much- like seriously, it got to the point where I was practically sobbing and my chest was heaving- I couldn't get to sleep and it was like omg, shut up it was a book. But yes. If you haven't read it, read it. If you have, isn't it just so wonderful?
On a completely different note, Criminal Minds starts tonight and Yazzi is very excited.