To Kill A Mocking Bird

Title: To Kill A Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

Publisher: Harper Collins

Genre: Historical Fiction, Classics, Young Adult

Source: Kindle Unlimited

My Review:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is not a book I would typically read. However, it was our book club pick for this month, so I had to read it.

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

My husband told me I was going to hate it and be offended. He was wrong. I didn't hate it, and I wasn't offended.

"As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me."

I loved Scout. She is precocious and wise (at times) beyond her years. Had the story been told from anyone else's perspective, I probably wouldn't have liked it, but she saved the story for me.

"Hey, Boo."

She was only speaking how she was taught to speak and you can't fault a child for that. The story was well-written, flowed smoothly, and had a climactic ending. I am glad I read it.

Content notes: cursing, use of the N word, 

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Amazon):  

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable coming-of-age tale in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage iniquities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father — a crusading local lawyer — risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.