the romance between casey and silas was soo cute.. also i’d literally just finished catcher in the rye a few days before I came across this quote in w&l.. and i loved it with like a romantic amount of passion:
“There’s a bit of clapping, and I walk up to the podium. I see a few clusters of students I teach and many others I don’t know. Their faces are lifted up at me. I think of Holden Caulfield, wanting to catch the children before they fall off the cliff, and I get it now.”
just makes me smile so much. the scene where holden talks about becoming a catcher in the rye is so beautiful and really made me emotional so this was a great callback
Feb 12, 2025
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It was about a week before I was supposed to leave home for college. My aunt had bought me a copy of that & a copy of David Copperfield, neither of which I had ever picked up. She said something about those two books being very important for a kid like me. I still havent read Copperfield all the way through. Dickens is too English for my taste. But on a whim, that night I opened up Catcher. I read it till morning. It’s cliché & corny, but I hadn’t experienced the feeling of encountering some sort of soul mate in a book until reading that book (and wouldn’t again until I got in to Kafka). I still love JD Salinger to this day. I just made my way through Franny & Zooey actually. Adored it
Nov 28, 2024
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I think the works of J.D. Salinger (mainly The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey) are incredible and should be read by everyone for their unique writing and exploration of human nature!! 🙏
The Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite books ever and I love it so much ❤
Dec 29, 2024
the perfect excuse to rec one of my all time favourites, franny and zooey by jd salinger 🤍 one of those books that’s super well known and still managed to have a very personal impact on me
Apr 16, 2024
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it’s stupid and perfect and lowkey one of the greatest movies of all time. it’s fun !! it’s california! we’re surfing and skydiving and robbing banks! what more can you ask for!!
Feb 22, 2025
bike with friends, invent something new, grow flowers, enjoy some reeses pieces, try not to get captured by the government.. stuff like that!
Sep 9, 2024
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i have 9 out right now and in no world am i finishing all 9 of them (including a 500 page oral history of the soviet union and like a 550 page one about the manson murders). but i really love checking books out, really satisfies some sort of innate consumer impulse in me. and i love having books around me.
Nov 21, 2024