Outside Reading-Emery Miller

The book I'm reading is Catcher in the Rye. I like this book a lot but I haven't seen a lot parts of speech or English things like irony or metaphors in it so far. The book doesn't really have many big words and has alot of swearing in it, so I can really understand the book well. I really like the main character, Holden Caulfield. I can't say I can relate to him very well but he seems appealing in some ways. He goes and visits his teacher at his home which you wouldn't expect a normal sixteen-year-old to do. He also talks about everything he hates and all of his pet peeves. He is a very different main character. I like the setting of the book too, taking place in the 40's and at a boarding school and all. It also is a wintery chilly setting early in the book, which puts me in a certain mood that I like. It makes me want to get a hot mug of apple cider or hot chocolate and snuggle up in a blanket and read the book. The book is pretty funny too, I like Holden's sense of humor which is usually making fun of people he doesn't like or flaws about others, but there are some parts I find tedious. Holden says quite frequently after a sentence, "It really was," "I really am," and stuff like that. I don't know what is going on in it, if its just something the author likes to do or what but it seems strange to me. There are other repetitve parts of the book I can't name off the top of my head, but they are there and it makes it seem like the book isn't headed anywhere. All together, I really like the book and look forward to seeing what happens in it everytime I pick it up.