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There was an used book near where I used to work, it was a big area and I love reading. The manager always knew so much about books. But one day I heard him correcting a girls grammar, pronunciation and even accent. I could never go back, it destroyed book shops me for a bit. Especially when I heard another friend how great the small independent book store was, I started thinking that Black Books got it’s inspiration from somewhere.

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I read this 30 years ago and loved it. Time for a reread.

I mostly track when I have to return book to the library.

The fact his form of reassurance was just telling Holden he'd be going back to his own room didn't scream innocence to me either.

It’s the curation aspect. I volunteered at my hometown library for 4 years shelving books. After 2 I noticed the kinds of books that were stocked and what never made it through the doors. Used bookstores tend to go deeper on non-mystery/romance/thriller that form the majority of most libraries.

I don’t track normally, but I challenged myself in 2020 to read more, and I kept track of what I read using a goodly spreadsheet. It’s kinda cool to go back and look at what I read.

Oh it’s a hoot. Once you accept that Holden is a grump and you don’t have to be on his side, he’s very funny, and some of the things he’s grumpy about are true enough to be like, yeah man, I get it.

That is unfortunate, the responses I got were exactly what I was hoping for.

I tried re-reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 after watching the Hulu adaption. King might not be the biggest hitter for emotional reads, but knowing the ending that was approaching just hurt my heart more with each page. I couldn't do it. I tend not to re-read anything in general except LOTR, but that was almost the exception.

True true and I didn’t know that about his change. But it makes sense, Franny and Zooey builds out of disillusionment to a thesis statement of faith, where Catcher does the same thing but ends with growth as the thesis.

Obviously named him Rye

Oh hundo percent predatory. Everything about Holden makes a lot more sense if he’s been sexually abused.

I’m planning on starting a crochet book snake just to have incentive to read a lot and read different genres

Yeah I think Catcher, as well as Salinger’s other stories, benefits greatly from being slowly, because the richness of the books comes from unraveling its unreliable narrator. The truths he’s almost accidentally telling come out between the lines. It helps that the book is fairly short, because that eases the pressure to rush through it. I like short books for that reason, you innately savour them.

Speaking of other stories, if you liked the interplay of motivations and character and text in Catcher, I definitely recommend Franny and Zooey. It’s similar in style but more centred around the contradictions of young adult as opposed to adolescent disillusionment.

when I read I use noise cancelling headphones and a soundscape that fits the mood of the book and it helps me, but I do still get distracted some times. I love classical music, so ill have to give that a try.

when I was younger, I read part of the harry potter series while listening to avenged sevenfold city of evil album, very low. just gave me some ambient noise. now when I hear anything from that album it remind me of harry potter lol

I have a yearly “note” in my notes app with the list of books, and the dates I started/finished.

I think I know, based on something I heard in a film some time...

• It was meant to be "a small pounding of pain"
• But through a typographical error it became "a 1/4 pounding of pain"
• And of course, in France, this became "a Royale with Cheese of pain" (due to the metric system).
• And finally this became "a cheeseburger of pain", (likely because of an undisclosed Copyright claim)

I can't back this up with any evidence, but it seems the most logical reason.

A River Runs through It by Norman Maclean was so good, I bawled when I finished it. It's been moved on my shelves, but I have never read it again.

[From Goodreads] "Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of A River Runs through It that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It & Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx."

"Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps & for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas & short story in this collection are based on his own experiences — the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures & beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, & so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand & foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, & whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams & mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, & being a husband, a son, & a father."

I read it in high school many years ago and I hated it.

so proud of you for reading every day! don’t put these expectations on yourself of ‘i should do this’ or ‘i should be doing this’. you love reading novels! that’s amazing - enjoy your hobby and read as much as you WANT and not how much in comparison you should be! happy reading!

Because it's wrapped up like a douche?

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