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someonesomewhere's avatar

My favorite book of all time is The Catcher In The Rye. Holden Caulfield always resonated with me. The way he’s so lost. How he is always trying to do something right but inevitably ends up doing something wrong. Wandering around without a purpose. I’m 26 now and still haven’t found one yet. Might be a long time before I do.

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Maria Maggio Fisher's avatar

Thank you for your time sharing this. Enjoyed your commentary and the selections were interesting, diverse. Only book I read that you covered was The Seven Storey Mountain, which sparked an interest in Merton for years.

I now have Mr Bridge and Mrs Bridge, as well as Different Seasons on deck. (AND your Middle Grade series and memoir up next which I'm excited about. My first Jsmes Patterson books, how crazy is that!)

I have an attachment to cookbooks as some have to novels. Nigella Lawson's Cook, Eat, Repeat as an example of recipes with musings..

In honor of Conclave that started today, My Brother, the Pope is a favorie from a bit ago that is worth a read. It is basically interview responses of Georg Ratzinger, about Pope Benedict XVI. Shares their early years when they were in the underground seminary in Germany during WWII, up to his brother becoming pope.

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lynn Davies's avatar

One of my best books that I still think about is The man without a country. It had such a effect on me. To think someone can go thru all that and still love his country so much. I have such a love of reading I have read all your books as well. I always have a book in my hand. There as so manu that have so enjoyed

Lynn Davies

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