...If you do, you start missing everybody.
With these 2 sentences ends the book. Sentences that are stuck in my head. i loved the book. i didn't wait for such an end and that made the book even better. i hate to read such books when you guess the final when you've reached just the middle.
Don't ever tell anything to anybody. If you do, you start missing everybody... I believe in those words. I think I've experienced them. Even before finishing the book, i was talking with my friend about someone we all loved much. and i felt like i missed him. i felt like i want to email him and i still want to. it's just i haven't emailed him for years and i dunno if his address is the same or not.
my dad has a good taste. i never regret when i read the books he recommends. and this one, the catcher in the rye, he gave me years ago but the book was lying on my desk for ages. very often my dad was asking me if i was reading the book or not. and i read it at last.
the next book i'm going to read is three comrades by erich maria remarque. my dad likes that one, too...

i'm beginning to sort of hate my city.
a boring vacation... i didn't want to stay at home this evening so i went to one of my fav places, the park of saryan. i read a little and wrote a little and then went to Cascade. i did the same there too but i found it sort of boring and decided to go to a music store and buy a joni mitchell cd. so i walked to my fav music store. a guy stopped me and asked if he could talk with me. ah, i know those guys. he's not the first. they just want a date and then something more. i said no in a very angry voice and walked even faster. when i crossed the street and i was almost there, a middle-aged man stopped me and asked what time it was. i told him and then he said: "would you drink coffee with me?" "sorry, but i'm going to this music store," i answered. then i just flew over the steps and entered the store. i was so nervous that i forgot what i was going to buy. i looked around at some cds. after a while the man enetered there. i was nervous, as i already told. then i remembered what i wanted and asked for joni mitchell but they didn't have it. i asked some other things too just to make the man leave the store but he waited for me til i went out. i hurried a bit but he still reached me and asked to go to the nearest cafe. i said ok. i thought it's going to be an open air cafe. but he took me to a very dark place for romantic meetings. then he began to touch my hands and then arms. that annoyed me. i said that i don't feel well and went out. he followed me. i told him that i hated dark places. then i asked him how old he was. he told he's 38 but i was sure he's even older. then we walked a bit. i was lucky cuz i met my friend soon and while we hugged each other i whispered in her ear: "Lil, will you take me with you?" and she did. i said goodbye to that man.
...and now i'm very angry. why can't i walk down the streets without those random meetings? oh, how i hate my city and how i hate the guys of yerevan!!! i can't live here anymore. i give myself 2 years for staying here. then i'll leave this country forever or perhaps i'll visit here once in a while to see my family and some friends. one thing i know for sure. i can't live here anymore.