What I'm Reading

Almost a month since I posted a book recommendation but I have been so busy, I've only been rereading. Pulled My Salinger Year off my teetering TBR pile, and was very glad I did. Salinger has informed and shaped so much of my writing, I may have outgrown him now but at 13, 14, 15, later at 22 wanting to be Franny, wanting to have a single pure experience like Seymour, I remembered all that while I read Joanne Rakoff's memoir of her year working at the great man's literary agency. Themes close to my heart: books, reading and currently, change. I had to pull all my old Salingers off my shelves with the absence of Catcher, my beloved Holden is missing but it might be for the best. I don't think I could bear being over him. #jdsalinger #bookstagram #mrmbookclub #121in2021 #mysalingeryear #joannerakoff