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awesome!stoked about this one for sure!
thanks for all your hard work rhi!!!
Ashley wrote: "awesome!stoked about this one for sure!
thanks for all your hard work rhi!!!"
This is one of my favorite books ever. I have a really good biography of Harper Lee waiting to be read, so I may read that and chime in with info, rather than reread this...
excellent! i am thrilled we're reading this too!& Audrey i look forward to your info/insights as we go!
this is one of my favourite books ever, now just have to find it .. :)
wow- i just finished this one- amazing! one of the best books i've read EVER. i LOVE little Scout, Jem, Atticus & Boo Radley. i couldn't put it down. Don't want to ruin it for those in the group that are just getting started- but can't wait to talk with everyone about it!
The original film is supposed to be good too- maybe have to try & rent it. has anyone seen it? Robert Duvall i think?
gabrielle wrote: "wow- i just finished this one- amazing! one of the best books i've read EVER. i LOVE little Scout, Jem, Atticus & Boo Radley. i couldn't put it down. Don't want to ruin it for those in the group t..."
nope..Gregory Peck. The film IS fantastic, one of my favorites.
Audrey wrote: "gabrielle wrote: "wow- i just finished this one- amazing! one of the best books i've read EVER. i LOVE little Scout, Jem, Atticus & Boo Radley. i couldn't put it down. Don't want to ruin it for th..."
I can't wait to watch the movie...
I have been writing notes and highlighting like a madwoman.
I am so digging this classic.
can't wait to discuss!!
It's a favorite of mine. The movie is so wonderful. One of my fave quotes from a movie is "Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing." The book is extraordinary with many wonderful quotes also. My fave being "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." Hope everyone enjoys.
Rhi...will you start the discussions and break it down into chapters like before?
Argh! I've just started reading Little Dorrit, which is like 1000 pages long...but I really want to read To Kill A Mockingbird! Maybe I'll just have to read both alongside each other!
Will read this one, all your excitement has made me curious. It arrived today and I have also only started another book yesterday - so I might read them parallel, which is not too bad because sometimes I just need a break from a classic or am too tired to really concentrate...Will you ladies actually read both February books or just choose one? I did not really get whether we are now reading two books or whether it is a matter of choice.
gabrielle wrote: "wow- i just finished this one- amazing! one of the best books i've read EVER. i LOVE little Scout, Jem, Atticus & Boo Radley. i couldn't put it down. Don't want to ruin it for those in the group t..."
You know...I forgot, but Robert Duvall IS in the movie. He plays Boo Radley -- that's one of his earliest roles, I think.
I finished it!!!When can we discuss?!
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will you start the discussions and break it down into chapters like before?"
sorry ashash!
i havn't been online, i've done my back in, so am in rather a drug haze!
please please don't think that i am the only one who should start discussions. feel free to start threads on any topic of the book you like.
i may be out of action with this back for another week or so.
I am now a bit more than halfway through. I loved the little pieces of wisdom right at the end of part 1.The beginning of the book was really hard, though, I had to fight my way through b/c it seemed to boring to me - I mean how much can you write about two children playing in summer - or maybe I completely missed the point?
But after page 100 I started to really enjoy the book / the story.
See, I always enjoyed the beginning because I grew up in the South, and that's just a familiar sense to me. Plus, I think it gives you a really good idea of the normality and characterization going on there -- and allows you to really see how much the Robinson trial upsets all of that.
Thanks Audrey, you just made me appreciate the beginning - I never looked at it that way! You are right, to some extent it really portraits how we used to play as children - spending time outdoors, inventing games, watching the neighbours.Will there be some more on Boo Radley later on? I wondered the whole time why so much of the beginning focussed on the Radley family.
And I love Atticus - he seems like a really wise man. I am impressed how he raises his children.
Yes, there will definitely be more Boo Radley later on.In fact, Boo features significantly in my very favorite part of the whole book, a part which makes me cry every single time I read it, though I find it hard to explain why. (I'll attempt to do so once everyone has had time to get through this one this month.)
Done! There are some truly remarkable passages in this book. My copy is full of dog-ears and I plan to re-read the ones that really spoke to me.
i'm reading I am Scout The Biography of Harper Lee and Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee.the author, charles j. shields is coming to my library for a book signing/book talk and i'm preparing for that.
i absolutely love to kill a mockingbird, and harper lee is such an interesting woman.
Allison wrote: "i'm reading I am Scout The Biography of Harper Lee and [..."I think they are essentially the same book; I Am Scout is just the YA version of Mockingbird. I read Mockingbird just a few weeks ago -- it was interesting to find out more about Harper Lee.
i think that you're right, i am scout is a pretty watered down version, and also found in the YA section.but, since the author is coming to do a big presentation on both books, i wanted to know what he was talking about. i'm also really enjoying all the photographs in i am scout, i love seeing the real people.
our city recently started doing a book of the month type of deal, where there are lots of book groups discussing it, and then they usually get the author to come and do signings and presentations. this is something pretty new, and rare around here, so i want to take as much advantage of it as i can.
This is absolutely hands down one of the best books I have ever read.I love books that make me FEEL something.
Whether heartache, happiness, or fear.
If words can move me deeply in an emotion...i dig it.
I highlighted so many beautiful sentences...ones that created such a vision for me.
Here are a few from the first few chapters...will share more as the conversation goes further.
Dill had seen Dracula, a revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect.
Jem said he "bought cotton" a polite term for doing nothing-
Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Aint hateful, just persuades him-'s not like you'd chunk him in the fire." Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle huh?"
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My favorite part of the whole book is the part where Scout realizes who the man is that saved her and Jem. She looks over to him standing in the corner of the room and simply says, "Hey Boo." I cry every time I read that part. It's not that there's anything profound in what she says, but there's that acknowledgement of their friendship and of what he's done there, there's her acceptance of someone whom everyone else has ostracized, and there's the last vestiges of her innocence left in that statement -- in a child's sense of trust and goodness. To me, that scene wraps up so much of what is important in the book.
For me,it was when she was on his front porch.
She saw what he really honestly and truly got to experience.
The image they had of this crazy man with bloodstained hands that was chained to the basement...he experienced WAAAY more with them then she knew or will ever understand.
He kinda grew up with them ya know?
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I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee (other topics)I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee (other topics)
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (other topics)
It's also a classic, so we will just say this is the classic book choice.