I’m not sure if there is much left now by J.D.Salinger that the library has or if there is any more to read. Most of his short story collections have now been covered and at the end you are left… more →
inside booksMatthew wrote 5 hours ago: “Oh…well, about life being a game and all. And how you should play it according to the r … more →
desario71 wrote 1 day ago: I already blogged about Zadie Smith’s response to David Shields’ Reality Hunger: A Manif … more →
dmarshall58 wrote 2 days ago: Teaching Huck Finn after Catcher in the Rye, I’m struck—again—by how much the second book owes the f … more →
shuggie wrote 1 week ago: Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield! What can you say about Holden Caulfield? He’s kind of anno … more →
smander wrote 2 weeks ago: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is of the bildungsroman genre; a coming-of-age story. It is … more →
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Matty D wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve been reading a lot more recently, much about Bob Dylan. What I don’t understand is … more →
bwmathews wrote 1 month ago: I know, I know. It’s been awhile. No excuses — I simply haven’t felt like writing, … more →
tuulenhaiven wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been dipping into these books frequently since I found them at bookshops where I wasn … more →
kajltomas wrote 1 month ago: Editor’s Note: This is Part III of a III part series. For Part I, scroll down or click here. For Par … more →
margaret michelle wrote 1 month ago: Dear Franny and Zooey, Where, oh where, are you? Come home to me. I miss you– your plain white … more →
youngromantic wrote 1 month ago: For all of the classic books I love, there are those I hate. And the entire repertoire of some autho … more →
Anuj wrote 1 month ago: In the year 1980, after Mark Chapman shot John Lennon dead, he sat on the sidewalk, took out a book … more →
kajltomas wrote 1 month ago: Editor’s Note: This is Part II of a III part series. For Part I, scroll down or click here. Th … more →
kajltomas wrote 1 month ago: In their book-length study on young adult/teen fiction, The Adolescent in the American Novel Since 1 … more →
General Tzso wrote 1 month ago: 9/31/09 First class work on modern par with Dickens. … more →
drunkinarowboat wrote 1 month ago: Juuuust reading a novel on a folding chair in the kitchen right now. Well, I stopped reading it. I b … more →
albanypubliclibrary wrote 1 month ago: Thanks for reading The Catcher in the Rye with me this month — it’s interesting for me t … more →
hmorba wrote 1 month ago: Banned Books Week is upon us once again, and this year it led me to do some reflecting on the subjec … more →