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 ❤
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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 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
Dec 14, 2024
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I am not a very emotional person especially compared to my close friends who cry often and share their life and struggles to me
this year something happened to me that got me very sad and I cried hard for a long time
that day, I had felt like a dam broke in my mind and all of a sudden I began to cry over everything (tiktoks, stars, little women)
when I reflect on this, I feel sad that my happiness has seemingly decreased, however(!) I now feel much happier and healthier because I am letting out my emotions rather than keeping them to myself
I also have come to love the sensation of crying. it's a fun and interesting state to be in physically and mentally and it's really kinda cool
now instead of thinking that I am just less emotional than other people, I've realized that I too have the capacity to feel things and I'm happy ❤️🫧🌷
Dec 30, 2024
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Behind your ears, boiling pasta and forgetting
about six minutes, letting it turn to glue. I remember
once you said, this tree is torn to shreds and we stood
and stripped it further. The night I looked at you terrified.
This was back when we belonged to no one,
when your hand found my rib in the dark. I played dumb
so as not to lose you. I watched you choose lovers,
watched as you changed on a whim when a man entered
the room. Laura, I want you embarrassed
by long dresses, by the fun of the carnival.
I remember the first time I convinced you to keep living.
It didn’t take much. I tricked you into walking to the place
on the corner with cheese danishes glazed thick
with sugar. We never got them. On the sidewalk a child
was playing in her plastic kitchen. She poured us imaginary
water, offered us mud soup. We put out our hands.
You took the mud almost to your mouth.
Feb 13, 2025
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I have the flu and lately when I go to sleep and I'm kinda tossing and turning and coughing I'm thinking about knights
I keep accidentally falling into a pattern of sorta choreographing knights like moving them around into specific spots and positions and motions for some reason and I cant stop even when I try to think of something else it's real scary actually
Feb 8, 2025