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Once I started, I couldn‘t put this book down. I eagerly turned the pages in half anticipation half suspense in following Rakoff‘s job as the assistant to J.D. Salinger‘s agent. When Rakoff shared she‘d never read Salinger‘s work as it never came up in school or interest; I felt connection. As I too have never read his work. 😬 Yet when she describes how moved she was when she did, I‘m tempted to make this year a Salinger reading year. More ⬇️

I absolutely love this! Could not stop reading it, reminiscent of The Devil wears Prada in the setting and era.
I've just ordered her other book...

Wow! I've wanted this for years after reading about it on here.
And it jumped off a charity shop shelf and showed itself to me!!!

📕 My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
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It‘s time for another photo challenge! I never read the book but I enjoyed the movie. A memoir by a young woman getting her first job in publishing working for Salinger‘s publisher.

I loved this book. Such a good writing style, and the insights into the 90s literary world was fascinating

Came across this by accident, really nice story

Saw the movie yesterday and it was very good. I don‘t keep many books these days but I had kept these two. The movie was cleverly done I thought. Author would have had an input as I saw she was one of the producers. We feel very blessed here as we are free to go to the movies, walk about mask free and generally enjoy a COVID free life. Just can‘t travel very far. . Through all this I have not worn a mask once. So blessed.
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? Ruhig und überraschend wunderbar. Super auch ohne Salinger-Vorkenntnisse lesbar.
Klar, manchmal will man Joanna anbrüllen: „Checkst du‘s nicht⁉️“, aber das würde ich wohl auch mit meinem 24-jährigen Ich tun wollen. ?
Don ist ein Ar**h, aber ich liebe das Flair der Agentur und die scheinbare Leichtigkeit von Joannas Tätigkeit dort.

Außerdem wage ich vielleicht doch einen Versuch mit Salingers Erzählungen. ? (Mit dem „Fänger“ wohl niemals.)

Ich mag das Buch. Flüssig und kurzweilig – und das im besten Sinne. Ich kann nämlich nicht schon gedanklich komplett vorzeichnen, was passieren könnte.

Bloß mit den amerikanischen Gegenwartsautorinnen und -autoren kann ich nicht mithalten. Klar, einige kennt man vom Namen her. Aber zum Beispiel Judy Blume … Weder vorher von ihr gehört noch irgendwas von ihr gelesen. Das ist ein bisschen schade – aber sonst: liebevoll erzählt. ✨

Ja, nachdem ich den Wikipedia-Artikel gelesen habe, kann ich verstehen, dass der Mann meines Vertrauens den Inhalt des Originals fast vollständig verdrängt hat.

Der Typ ist ja eine unerträglich arrogante Nervensäge, der selbst das lebt, was er verurteilt. ?

Ich wollte ursprünglich den „Fänger im Roggen“ vorher lesen, weil ich mir vorstellen kann, dass es in „Lieber Mister Salinger“ die ein oder andere Anspielung bzw. den ein oder anderen Querverweis gibt, den ich unbeachtet lasse oder nicht verstehe/nicht bemerke, aber da ich bei diesem Buch ziemlich kurzentschlossen war, hab ich das Original so schnell nicht mehr besorgen können. Der Mann meines Vertrauens erinnert es allerdings arg als seltsam. ?

After leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, the author moves to NYC and takes a job as assistant in a literary agency who just happens to represent the reclusive JD Salinger. A memoir of ‘being young and literary in the late 1990s..”
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This was more a book about being in your early twenties, the stupid decisions you make, and wanting to do more with your life but having no idea how, than it is a book about Salinger. I liked reading about The Agency but had a hard time reading about the author‘s boyfriend issues without cringing (and there is so much space devoted to them). This book was not at all what I expected but it was an interesting glimpse into publishing in the 90s.

I am home and ready to #litsypartyofone! I have been thinking about this moment all week long long. I have my book stack, my Reece‘s and a mug of tea that might morph into a glass of wine shortly. Now I need to decide if I want to start the tagged book on my kindle or one of the books in my potential stack of weekend reads. Decisions, decisions...

“Salinger was nothing like I'd thought. Nothing. Salinger was brutal. Brutal and funny and precise."

Rakoff's writing is not earth-shattering, but enjoyable. How cool it must be to have a small piece of history with "Jerry," no matter how erratic and reclusive. This really makes me want to read Salinger again soon.

School pick up line reading. 😬

He's here for the snacks not the snuggles. #dogsoflitsy #bostonterriersoflitsy

One for me, one for them. #bookmail is the best mail!

Very good. Would highly recommend not just to fans of J.D Salinger but to everyone with a love of books as it takes you into the inner workings of a literacy agency nd shows you the process of how a book is brought to life. Also you get an insight to the life of the author and how her passion for literature drives her.

#TBRtemptation post 3! This book received rave reviews and honors by everyone from BookRiot to Oprah when it came out in 2014. This is a memoir about pre-digital literary NYC in the late '90s. An aspiring poet, Joanna became assistant to J.D. Salinger's literary agent. They use Dictaphones & typewriters, at night returning to her small Williamsburg apartment & socialist boyfriend. Her task: responding to JD's fan mail. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

My Salinger Year is JR's light memoir of her 1st job at the literary agency that represented the elderly Salinger. The young JR has not yet developed a personality & writes quite simply --nearly shallowly-- of her awkward employment. Her story is told with a grade school vocabulary that belies the poet she tries to be. You feel no love for the written word here. 4/5th's of the way in she finally reads JDS's books & finds her direction in life.🙄

I just want to clarify that as Salinger-obsessed as I am, I was not the kid in Winston-Salem (my town) who kept writing letters to the author's agency... but maybe I'd like to meet him.

Finished this morning. Loved it . Great writing. Very interesting . Lovely insights. Clever woman .

That some what sums up how I often feel in a library. 📚😍

Started reading this morning. I love it when I open second hand books and find something from previous reader. This one contained a boarding pass. Probably used as a book mark. I'm not too far into the book but so far so good. 😊 .

Finished this yesterday. It took me a while because life is mad right now, but I found it charming and funny, and nostalgic in all the right ways. Recommended!

My op shop find today . To be added to my pile of books to be read. In the back of my mind I think I've heard of this book. Any comments from anyone who has read it??

Already half way through this. Ah, to be young and in New York again. #nostalgia

Not as much #readathon time as planned today, but slowly getting through my TBR stack. As someone who never got farther in to Salinger's work than the required reading in high school, I was worried this one might not hold my interest. It was a fun, fast read.