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Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Why we're reading this: This book comes out in July 2015
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Jul 23, 2015 Jenny rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015

I feel like my review needs to be prefaced with a statement that I think it's crap that because she is very elderly she's being taken advantage of and something she didn't want published was published.

But I bought it and read it and I think it makes me admire her talent all the more. This book is one of the best books I've read this year and it was scrubbed and used to write another book! It has literary merit in its own right and is a really good stand alone book, but reading it as a companion ...more

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Apr 28, 2015 Bridget rated it liked it

I had mixed emotions when the release of this book was announced. Of course, being a lover of To Kill a Mockingbird, I was excited but I was also optimistically cautious (especially after learning about the legal drama involved).

Anyways, within a few pages I was brought back to a time and place that was easily recognizable. I quickly become emotionally attached again to characters I thought of as old friends and was tearing up within a matter of minutes.

I could see why Lee's editor wanted to k ...more

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Oct 20, 2015 pianogal rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fic, z2015-reads

Nope. Sorry. This left me completely flat. It kinda read like bad fan fiction. TKaM had so much depth, and this felt really shallow. Plus, it was basically Scout throwing one big fit. Plus it was like Atticus wasn't racial enough in the first book, so she came back and "fixed" it.

Ugh. No need to care about this one. ...more

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