For some reason, I only read Salinger when I'm traveling. I'm sure it helps they're all so slim and portable. And so on the way back from Buffalo I started this one, which I'd always meant to return to after reading most of it for class in 2001. 
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 Yep, still good. Salinger has a knack for spotting life's incidentally pivotal moments: the significant but unnoticed precursors to the more noticeable action.