{"id":1268,"date":"2012-09-26T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2012-09-26T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:56:14","slug":"feeling-infinite-gearing-up-for-the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/feeling-infinite-gearing-up-for-the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Infinite: Gearing Up For “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Heather<\/a>by Heather Etelamaki
\nAlumni Epsilon Chapter
\nAlumna of Kansas State Univeristy<\/p>\n

I am a firm believer that books come to you at the right moment. I refuse to believe it coincidental that I finally sat down to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em>, by Stephen\u00a0Chbosky<\/a>, just days after I\u2019d returned from the convention<\/a> last year. It\u2019s a book that spoke to me not just as a reader and writer, but as a person. I\u2019ll never forget that. Which is one reason why I\u2019m excited to see the movie adaptation that comes out this month (playing in select theaters now, general release Oct 5).<\/p>\n

Perks<\/em> follows the freshman year of a teenager named Charlie. After the suicide of his best friend, Charlie enters high school and soon befriends two seniors named Sam and Patrick, who take him in. With their companionship, Charlie is finally able to, as he puts it, \u201cparticipate,\u201d and the reader is taken along as he tackles each new experience. It\u2019s hard not to feel a complete kinship with Charlie as you\u2019re reading; his character voice is magnificently honest and he feels things so purely as he reacts to each new and unique experience.<\/p>\n

The last non-Potter\/Hunger Games<\/em> YA adaptation I was really excited for was Ned Vizzini\u2019s It\u2019s Kind of a Funny Story<\/em> in 2010. It\u2019s rare these days to find a solid film adaptation of a beloved book, and most especially a YA adaptation that doesn\u2019t pretend to know what adolescence is truly like. But as soon as I heard that Stephen Chbosky, the author, was writing and directing<\/a> the Perks <\/em>film, my worries evaporated. It is, completely, his vision.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Summit Entertainment, LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One look at the trailer<\/a>, and it\u2019s clear the cast is the best it can possibly be. Logan Lerman plays Charlie, who befriends Ezra Miller\u2019s Patrick and Emma Watson\u2019s Sam. True to the book, it\u2019s set in the early \u201890s. Each clip that has surfaced<\/a> over the last few weeks leading up to the movie\u2019s release has been promising. The cast<\/a> seems genuine and passionate in interviews. And don\u2019t get me started on the soundtrack<\/a>!<\/p>\n

My only worry is that, because of the film\u2019s limited release, it might be hard to find a theater close enough to see it (a downside to living in the middle of Kansas). Regardless, my love for the book continues to grow, as does my excitement for the film. I have an entire box of Kleenex prepared for my movie buddy, Laura, and myself. It\u2019s sure to be amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Heather Etelamaki Alumni Epsilon Chapter Alumna of Kansas State Univeristy I am a firm believer that books come to you at the right moment. I refuse to believe it coincidental that I finally sat down to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen\u00a0Chbosky, just days after I\u2019d returned from the convention last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[107,212],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-high-plains-region","tag-books","tag-films"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa2J6O-ks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}