This past Thursday, J. D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, passed away. As I was watching people’s reactions on Twitter, I realized something: I’ve never read Catcher in the Rye. Somehow, for some reason (actually many reasons, some of which I can actually recall but won’t go into here), I managed to completely miss this book.
Which is why Amanda, Heather and Jackie at Farmlanebooks put our heads together (metaphorically, of course), and came up with an idea to have a Catcher in the Rye read-a-long. It’s going to be pretty easy-going. We’re planning on starting Sunday, February 14th and wrapping up around the end of the month. I’ll make sure there are posts after February 14th where you can leave your spoiler comments, questions, and discussion points.
I’m not going to do anything formal with signing up and all that, but if you’re interested in reading along with us — either for the first time or the 20th — please leave a comment and let us know!
I’m quite curious to see what all the fuss is about.
(Oh, and many thanks to Amanda and Jason for the lovely button.)
The Book Nut 
I'm in 🙂
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I'm adding a link to you on my Salon post when it goes up. 🙂
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I'm in, as I've never read it, either!
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I'm in too. My daughter read it for high school American Lit this semester and loved it.
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It sounds as though this is a book that divides people – I'm looking forward to finding out which side of the fence I'm on!
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I'm sure I'll want to add my “two cents” to the discussion. 🙂
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I think I might do this! In all my 48 years I have never read this book, and I have been thinking recently that I should remedy. It might be more meaningful for me if I were to read it along with others. Great idea and I wil post about this when I do my next blog post.
*smiles*
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Sounds like a good time!
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I think I would like to join in! I might not be able to comment too much for part of the time because I'll be out of town, but reading it with a group sounds like fun!
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I'm doing this with a group at my library. I think it would be fun to follow along with this group first!
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(Note to Kim: I'm 52 and haven't read the book either; I think it's time to do so). This afternoon I purchased my copy at Borders and would like to join the discussion.
BTW, I saw an interesting post on Catcher today on Hawaii Readers
Thanks and Aloha from Rob
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Love the Catcher. Read it when I was 14 and I'm sort of afraid to destroy the magic by rereading it again. Have fun in the group read!
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