i know i should try not to let other people’s opinions get to me (it’s kind of my whole problem; thanks family!) but it makes me genuinely upset when people talk shit about Salinger, and Catcher in the Rye. that was a good-ass book when I read it at 19, and I’m enjoying it again now

but for some reason I’ve seen 4 or 5 people say something about hating this book recently, and it’s fine if you didn’t like it! but, actually it’s not. this adhd-ass kid flunking out from depression is too real

@splendorr I catch myself harshly judging anything public school forced me to read while testing the correctness of my interpretation 🥲
@tylersticka that’s kinda what I’m doing! revisiting some things to see what I think about them as a grown-ass woman. I don’t blame anybody who encountered something in school and didn’t love it! but I’m very interested in things Everybody Hates now. Sometimes they’re right! But I also enjoy reading things that might feature characters or events you aren’t supposed to like or agree with. I’m trying to say all of this without being a snob (even if I… am a snob 😅)
@splendorr I love it! Your post made me interrogate my own knee-jerk reaction to a novel I haven’t read in decades.
@tylersticka oh great! that’s all I’m trying to do for myself! make sure I’m not carrying the baggage of a misreading, misremembering, or simply a consensus I don’t want