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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Along with Jane Eyre, this will form no on be my favourite classic.
I originally endeavored to read this most wonderful book, simply to see what the hype was about. I knew it had also been found on the bedside tables of 2 presidential assassins, and I wondered why this was of any importance. I had also heard that this book was found on the bedside table of 2 assassins, but now I can't find any reference to it anywhere, so I have no idea whether this is true or not. It sounded interesting, to say the least.
When I started reading this though, I remembered why I loved classics. It seems that decades ago, books weren't just published for the sake of publishing them, or to find the next J. K. Rowling. Not all, but most books were printed because the authors were good writers. Paper and publishing was expensive back then, so printed material was (usually) better. As opposed to these days where it seems just about anything can be printed.
This book is beautifully written, a story told from the eyes of a young girl. You also get to hear the opinion of her brother, who is 4 years older than her. The world is so different through the eyes of a child, so much more truthful.
The plot centers around Scout and Jem Finch, with Jem coming into his teens as the book ends. It follows their individual opinions of the grown ups around them; children trying to make sense of the complications that grown ups create. Their father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer and as this book moves on it starts to move in on a very specific case that he is dealing with and how it affects his family and his children's ideas about the world.
I found this book to be beautifully written, compelling me from the first few pages just with that but keeping me glued to the book (or glued as much as a mother of a 3 year old can possibly be) because of the characters and the themes.
I love classics and only recently came to read and fall in love with Jane Eyre. Although the themes and ideas around our classic literature is usually inspiring and great to read, there are in actual fact, very few that I would read again. I will read this book again and again and again. Along with Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and The Importance of being Earnest, this is now one of my favourite works of all time.
I originally endeavored to read this most wonderful book, simply to see what the hype was about. I knew it had also been found on the bedside tables of 2 presidential assassins, and I wondered why this was of any importance. I had also heard that this book was found on the bedside table of 2 assassins, but now I can't find any reference to it anywhere, so I have no idea whether this is true or not. It sounded interesting, to say the least.
When I started reading this though, I remembered why I loved classics. It seems that decades ago, books weren't just published for the sake of publishing them, or to find the next J. K. Rowling. Not all, but most books were printed because the authors were good writers. Paper and publishing was expensive back then, so printed material was (usually) better. As opposed to these days where it seems just about anything can be printed.
This book is beautifully written, a story told from the eyes of a young girl. You also get to hear the opinion of her brother, who is 4 years older than her. The world is so different through the eyes of a child, so much more truthful.
The plot centers around Scout and Jem Finch, with Jem coming into his teens as the book ends. It follows their individual opinions of the grown ups around them; children trying to make sense of the complications that grown ups create. Their father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer and as this book moves on it starts to move in on a very specific case that he is dealing with and how it affects his family and his children's ideas about the world.
I found this book to be beautifully written, compelling me from the first few pages just with that but keeping me glued to the book (or glued as much as a mother of a 3 year old can possibly be) because of the characters and the themes.
I love classics and only recently came to read and fall in love with Jane Eyre. Although the themes and ideas around our classic literature is usually inspiring and great to read, there are in actual fact, very few that I would read again. I will read this book again and again and again. Along with Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and The Importance of being Earnest, this is now one of my favourite works of all time.