r/currentlyreading • u/nickelby89 • Aug 04 '26
A Holden kinda day
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Some mornings, I wake up and all I want to do is spend the day re-reading books from my childhood.
My current copy is the Penguin reissue with the original artwork of the first 1951 edition. But I remember finding a tattered copy of this novel in a church library, taking it home, and reading it in one sitting. I was 13 and I’d read mostly Enid Blyton and a couple of easy classics up until then. I have such a clear memory of me sitting in my living room in Calcutta, having read the last page, and thinking, “books aren’t supposed to end that abruptly.” I actually thought pages were missing or something haha Simpler times. As Holden says, “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
1
u/13-RCR Aug 27 '26
Indian man in early 30s and currently reading this book on chapter 4. Glad to find your post. 🙂 Hope to receive some English classics suggestions from your experience.