Traumbuchfänger: Cornelsen Verlag

Titel: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Deutscher Titel: Das ist also mein Leben
Autor: Stephen Chbosky
Verlag: Cornelsen Verlag
Seitenanzahl: 184
Reihe: Einzelband
ISBN: 978-3464360002
Meine Wertung: 4,5/5

Dear friend,

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure out who I am, and I really don't want you to do that. I will call people by different names or generic names because I don't want you to find me. I didn't enclose a return address for the same reason. I mean nothing bad by this. Honest.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.

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. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.

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It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam.

I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and he thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.

Titel: Looking for Alaska
Autor: John Green
Seitenanzahl: 224 (Taschenbuch)
Verlag: Cornelsen Verlag
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 3060311250
ISBN-13: 978-3060311255
Reihe: Einzelband
Meine Wertung: 4/5

Erster Satz:
The week I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to Boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

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