To Kill a Mockingbird in Terminalcoffee

Sep 20, 2007 Jackie "the Librarian" rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classicsworthreading, bildungsroman, awardwinners

Atticus Finch is my hero. Harper Lee's first and last book, it won the Pulitzer, and was so successful she could never figure out how to follow it, and eventually gave up even trying. The characters of Atticus Finch, Jem, and Scout are part of the American psyche. It is THE American novel, and it's a great story, too.
Everyone should read this book. ...more

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Apr 27, 2011 Velvetink rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-read, fiction

library borrow finally found a copy. should get through this before my next essay is due.

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Dec 17, 2007 Julie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: awwww-some, the-re-readables

I adore this book. I have since the first time I read it in High School (the only book assigned that I thought was worth reading), and I recently listened to the audiobook version by Sissy Spacek.
I thought she did a wonderful job.
I was putting on a horrible Alamaba accent long before I finished my trip.
Of all the "Classics", this is my Favorite. ...more

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Mar 28, 2007 Lisa rated it really liked it

I read this in...probably Junior High, in English class. As an adult, I didn't remember a damn thing about it, except their quest to draw Boo Radley out from his house (and that he wasn't as scary as they thought). After reading it again, I see why it's a classic. It has a rhythm to it, the pace of their small-town life, punctuated by the hard smack of serious issues about our country's history of racism. I unintentionally ended up reading a number of books about race relations in the depression ...more

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Jul 21, 2008 Cynthia Paschen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: myfavorites, book-group, the-list

I re-read this for book group.
(P. 63) "Mr. Avery said that it was written on the Rosetta stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes, and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves."
(p. 291, Scout is dressed as a ham) "Jem said he would take me. Thus began our longest journey together." ...more

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