@tsubaki19 - Perks is one of my absolute favorite books! The movie made me cry like a baby! I'm so grateful to Emma Watson for pushing to production along because Chbosky had been trying to get it produced for so long but no big name producers wanted to get behind the project.
I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak at the moment. I'm about half way through but I'm so attached to all the characters already! For anyone who is interested, it's set in Munich, Germany during WWII and follows Liesel, an adopted german child whose foster family is housing a Jew. She considers herself a book thief because she loves reading and words so much that she's willing to steal books (even banned ones) to read them. So far I highly recommend it though I'm sure once I read the end and it breaks my heart as all young adult novels tend to do, I'm going to be cursing Zusak out forever while still insisting every read the book. (isn't that how it always is?)
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