`` at the start of the second semester of ninth grade , a new girl showed up from new york and she was as rich as they come , but she hated being rich and loved the catcher in the rye , and she said i reminded her of holden caulfield , presumably because we were both self-absorbed losers , and she liked me because i knew a lot of languages and had read a lot of books , and then she broke up with me after twenty-five days because she wanted a boyfriend who did n't spend so much time reading and learning languages .