Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
Category: J.D. Salinger
Roof Beam Reader’s Best of 2013
Hello, Readers! Since I surpassed my 2013 goal of 60 books read (I’m up around 64, right now, with 2 books in progress and likely at least 1 more to go) before year’s end, I thought I would take a cue from some of… Continue Reading “Roof Beam Reader’s Best of 2013”
Mini-Reviews: Salinger, Forster, and Eagleton
Hi, folks! I have been pressed for time, lately (lately? Please. This is nothing new, and we all know it) and I am way behind on reviews. I “definitely” have four book reviews outstanding and “technically” have another three as well (texts I assigned… Continue Reading “Mini-Reviews: Salinger, Forster, and Eagleton”
Dear Jerome: A Letter to J.D. Salinger
Dear Jerome, Mr. Salinger. J.D. How would you like to be addressed, I wonder? Of course, it’s impossible to really ask, now, so I think I’ll just go with “Jerome.” It seems real and logical. And you seem real and logical. Do you want… Continue Reading “Dear Jerome: A Letter to J.D. Salinger”
A Dark Day, Remembered: 1/27/2010
This particular blog entry has been months in the making. The literary world lost two giants on Wednesday, January 27th 2010. J.D. Salinger I had to stifle a gut-reaction blog entry on J.D. Salinger after first hearing he had died. He was, to me, as… Continue Reading “A Dark Day, Remembered: 1/27/2010”
Review: Previously Read, Briefly Reviewed
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger This collection of short stories has been sitting on my shelf for about a year. I love J.D. Salinger, but I suppose I was a bit leery of reading his short stories, as I’ve only read his novel The… Continue Reading “Review: Previously Read, Briefly Reviewed”
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