30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Five & April Challenge

Favourite book you read in school

I’ve already featured a few books from my uni course but my favourite book I read at school has to have been J.D. Salinger’s Catcher In The Rye.

 Summary (From GoodReads)

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.