Looking Back - To Kill a Mockingbird

Looking Back... In an effort to transfer my book journal entries over to this blog, I'm going to attempt to post (in chronological order) an entry every Friday. I may or may not add extra commentary to what I jotted down in these journals.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fiction/Classic

1960 J. B. Lippincott Company

Finished on December 23, 2001

Rating: 5/5 (Outstanding!)

Publisher's Blurb:

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

My Original Thoughts (2001):

I finally settled down and read this classic. It was wonderful! I should have read it much sooner--why wasn't it assigned to me in high school?? Such memorable characters, my favorite of whom are Scout and Atticus. Humorous and tender. 

Favorite lines:

"It's not time to worry." 

 

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

I highly recommend this book. It was a joy to read. 

My Current Thoughts:

Definitely time for a re-read!