I barely made the 75 book challenge for 2008 (as you can see in my topic), but ready to signed up for 2009. My categories are:
I. Science fiction
1. The Wave by Walter Mosley (added 3/18/2009, read 1/25/2009)
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... been interested in reading him anyways ever since I heard he was friends with Harper Lee, was the inspiration for Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird, and there's even a rumour that Capote actually wrote Mockingbird. I don't know how much stock to put into that last as I haven't read anything about ...
... you have a unique author name.
How many books is a hypothetical 'other' Harper Lee going to have to write to trump To Kill a Mockingbird?
I wonder just how often your hypothetical situation occurs - from my experience, it is much more common to find a pretty obvious 'first choice' ...
... en une année ... C'est énorme ^^ Pour ma part, ce n'est pas tant une question d'envie mais de temps ...
J'ai déjà lu Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur mais je retiens d'ors et déjà Les yeux dans les arbres ! Merci Katya !
@ Cecilturte : j'avais remarqué aussi ^^
J'ai aussi deux autres suggestions:
Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur
Les yeux dans les arbres
Bonne chance!
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
You should have a great year!
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2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
3. Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
4. A Fable by William Faulkner
5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. The Reivers by William Faulkner
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
9. The Mambo Kings Play Songs ...
... by Khaled Hosseini
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch, George Eliot
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Wise Children, Angela Carter
"Not a breath blowing," said Jem.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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6. A Midsummer Night's Dream
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9. To Kill A Mockingbird
... I ended up getting her How I Live Now, Prep and I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You.
I gave her To Kill a Mockingbird last year and it wasn't a hit. Too bad, it's one of my favorite books. She's just not ready to move on to that type of book, yet. But...it will ...
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3. Emma: Jane Austen
4. Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte - 3 stars
5. To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee - 4 1/2 stars
6. Catcher in the Rye: JD Salinger - 3 1/2 stars
7. A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burge ...
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Books that Bill gave to Charlie to read in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (7)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. A Se ...
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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I must shamefacedly admit that I have never read Mockingbird, just watched the movie.
... Blikken Trommel (The Tin Drum)
7. Gabriel Garçia Marquez - De Verhalen (Collected Stories)
8. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mocking Bird
9. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
... Mikhail Bugakov (another one I've started, but because I wasn't in the right mood, I didn't get very far with)
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee (because, shockingly, I've never read it!)
- The Jungle Book: Rudyard Kipling (I used to love the Just So Stor ...
Can't imagine why I waited so long to read To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Wonderful book, written from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the rural South in the 1930s.
... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
4. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. 1984: A Novel by George Orwell
7. All The King's Men by Warren Robert Penn
All above were for a class ‘Politics in Literatur ...
... couple of years I reread Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn. Other than that, To Kill a Mockingbird is the only book I can think of that I've read at leas three times. I recently did reread In Cold Blood and found that it held up well.
Oldie but goodie: To Kill a Mocking Bird.
I would recomend To Kill a mockingbird or almost any book by Kurt Vonnegut once they start to read more literature. To begin with some books like Stardust or Animal Farm.
... the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Tales of the South Pacific, James Michner
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (no available touchstone for this one. How curious is that!)
The Color Purple, Alice Walk ...
I love To Kill a Mockingbird each time I read it!
I just finished the Old Man and the Sea and I'm going to read Angle of Repose next.
I finished To Kill A Mockingbird which was our Big Read. I then picked up where i had left off onWicked which is getting more interesting with each chapter. I am also getting back into The Last Hero & this should keep me busy for the time being. 8^)
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21. Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. LT # 1035 - 2,076 owners - 29 reviews - rating = 3.67.
22. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. LT # 13 - 20,294 owners - 260 reviews - rating = 4.47. not an evergreen for USA Today
23. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ...
Classics
1) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2) Possession by A S Byatt
3) To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
4) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
6) Little Woman by Louisa ...
... - James Otis Kaler
The Bobbsey Twins series - Laura Lee Hope
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
a big book of fairy tales by Hans Christian Anderson
I'll second the nudges for To Kill a Mockingbird and The Uglies trilogy.
Hi, cornpuff12!
I would like to recommend The Once and Future King. I love this book. I would also second To Kill a Mockingbird. It is amazing. And I also like Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon. Happy Reading!
--BJ
... will catch what's going on.
It's been ages since I've read Stephen Crane, but The Red Badge of Courage is (along with To Kill a Mockingbird) probably one of the two greatest coming-of-age stories, and at under 50,000 words it's not something that will prove overly tedious to a newer reader. ...
... checked for awhile. I would recommend reading the novel first, then the biography. I did understand a lot more about To Kill a Mockingbird knowing how it was written.
... Mary Stewart's books and the Travelling Pants series. Also, at your age I loved Jane Eyre, A Girl of the Limberlost, To Kill a Mockingbird, Anne of Green Gables and all its sequels.
... Rises
4. Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
5. Ginsberg - A Biography
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Ghost Hunter's Guide to Los Angeles & Spooky California (*blush*)
... To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee I've read this book many times. It's one of my favorites. This time I listened to the audio version read by Sissy Spacek and she's ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is really dear to my heart--every time I read it I am just in awe of how wonderful it is. It never loses its charm.
... for children/young adults about. I have a 12 yr old daughter and she will read anything from The Spiderwick Chronicles to To Kill a Mockingbird. The Artemis Fowl books are excellent and a personal favourite of mine would be the Inkheart Trilogy.
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It is about the time Capote and Harper Lee spent in Kansas. Apparently there are rumors that he actually wrote To kill a Mocking Bird and this book deals with that rumor and their relationship. I guess Capote didn't deny it when asked and it estranged them.
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48. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
49. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
50. The Stranger - Albert Camus
51. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
... needs to be read first; it has more explanation in it than the other book.
I definitely second the recommendations for To Kill a Mockingbird and Little Women. Those are hard to beat!
... Park by Jane Austen
I capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein
anything by Da ...
rediviva: lost in trance.lations cloe georas
spring's awakening frank wedekind
to kill a mockingbird harper lee
unaccustomed earth jhumpa lahiri
the very persistent gappers of frip george saunders
... listed in another thread, but seeing that I am an LT member, I thought I would join in here.
What I've Read:
1961 - To Kill A Mockingbird
1992 - A Thousand Acres
1995 - The Stone Diaries
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies
2006 - March
What I'm Reading:
1923 - One of Ours
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... of the schoolbook... I don't think I've reread any either, except to teach them to my own students - Playing Beatie Bow, To Kill a Mockingbird, Othello - thus perpetuating the vicious cycle :)
By the way, does anyone know of a Sydney bookcrosser who drives a blue Holden station wagon? 'Ca ...
... Winik
Young Adult/Juvenile
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
All of ...
Hi Madlibn,
I was thinking of reading To Kill a Mockingbird and Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper of Harper Lee together. How did that go for you?
Nancy
36. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I don't know how many times I've read it now. Once every two or three years. Every time I see something new in it. I happened again this morning.
I'm not at all sentimental, but there are a couple of places where I always tear up. Again, I did.
It ...
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Other favourite "literary" adaptations: Being There, Dangerous Liaisons, East of Eden, The Remains of the Day, To Kill a Mockingbird
Terrible adaptations: Ask the Dust, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Fountainhead
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5) Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business 2.13.09
6) A Crooked Kind of Perfect
7) Elsewhere 3.4.09
8) To Kill a Mockingbird
9) The Tale of Hill Top Farm 4.22.09
10) An Abundance of Katherines 4.17.09
11) Hard Eight
12) Olive's Ocean 5.16.09
13) Eats Shoots and ...
... the qualities of a U.S. president.
Voters overwhelmingly chose Atticus Finch, the main character from the classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird, who defended an African-American in court against trumped up charges. Readers said they admired Finch’s courage and steadfast principles, as well ...
... only Stephen King can do himself. Stephen King does Rebecca, Gone With The Wind, The Postman Always Rings Twice, To Kill A Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility Star Wars, Star Trek, A Street Car Named Desire, Death of a S ...
44. To Kill a Mockingbird
... Hawkins’ books by Robert Franc Schulkers. One of them, the Gray Ghost, is one of the books Scout speaks of in To Kill a Mockingbird
I have to say that for me it is anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs. His character’s all had a ‘never give up’ attitude that many times has ...
... year, recommended
SOPHIE'S WORLD by Jostein Gaarder (Fiction)
read (partly) some years back, did not like it
and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (Historical Fiction) is on my wishlist
Although I have watched the film many times and now own the DVD and love it I am ashamed to say I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I am planning on reading Harbor in January.
Have you really not read To Kill a Mockingbird? Although being in Britain gives you an excuse! It's really a masterpiece. I have Harbor sitting around here somewhere but haven't read it yet -- I'll be waiting to see what you think about it.
30. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I don't know how I never read this growing up, but now that I have I am glad I made the time for it. A truly unforgettable tale told by the young Scout Finch that will have you turning the pages until the very end without ever wanting to put it down.
30. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I don't know how I never read this growing up, but now that I have I am glad I made the time for it. A truly unforgettable tale told by the young Scout Finch that will have you turning the pages until the very end without ever wanting to put it down.
... to another award list or work my way through Hugo runner-ups.
I've read 8 of the Pulitzers in the past. I have reread To Kill a Mockingbird recently. Simply a brilliantly written story. The others are The Old Man and the Sea (did not enjoy that in high school), Angle of Repose, Lones ...
I'm still reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I love this book. I've been flying through books for the last couple of weeks, sometimes reading more than one at a time. But with this one, I'm taking my time. Only a couple chapters a day, only this one book at a time, enjoying every word.
... books now, could I? So, I left the store with:
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
The Pillars of the World by Anne Bishop
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (believe it or not, I've never read this - nor have I seen the movie. I'm told I've been missing out)
I really, REALLY need to take ...
... great trees in books because I was able to incorporate several of my favorites, The Lorax, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Giving Tree. I think I only had one out of the four in my dorm room but with a trip to the library I was able to get the rest.
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edoc--Welcome! Yeah, there really should be a book about the writing/making of the book. For example, (spoiler??) in Mockingbird Shields shows that the Clutter family story was much more complicated than portrayed, but that Capote chose to "refocus" their story to ensure the reader's ...
... I would have to say The Good Earth (maybe because it's my most recent read), March - written by an Aussie ex-pat, and To Kill a Mocking Bird.
What was the book you abandoned? For me, it was A Confederacy of Dunces. Maybe I should give it another chance. Have you read that one?
... most recently last spring for a class. (I am a very non-traditional student at Miami University) I regret I had not read To Kill A Mockingbird before that class. I can see reading that one over and over.
If Huck Finn is as good as The Amazing Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County was I ...
... in Ankh-Morpork to be exact reading the last few pages of Soul Music. Coming back to earth next to Alabama to reread To Kill a Mockingbird for this year's Big Read. 8^)
Tried to get Touchstones to work but it's being wonky tonite!
I'm going to start re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the Southern Lit Book Club pretty soon, but I need something completely emotionless for a few days first. Where are all the fluff books when you need them? If anyone has any suggestions please take a look at the books tagged 'tbr' in my ...
Midway through Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields and still listening to To Kill A Mockingbird, as read by Sissy Spacek, in the car on trips with my daughter.
6. Pulitzer Prize Winners. COMPLETED
1. One of Ours by Willa Cather 13/01/2009
2. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee 26/02/2009
3. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 31/03/2009
4. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 10/07/2009
5. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson June 2009
6. A Th ...
Today I picked up,
To Kill a Mockingbird, which I have read but I didn't own a copy.
Curious Incident of the Dog at Night
10 Days till the 'friends of the library' sale - yes, it is marked on my calendar.
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1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Tay ...
60. Sunset Express by Robert Crais
61. Scared to Live by Stephen Booth
62. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
... that it's really a "horror" novel in the traditional sense. There's something about it that sort of reminded me of To Kill a Mockingbird or the film Lady in White. I hope you review it. I'll be interested to see what you think.
... they are so easy to follow. I no longer commute so I have gotten away from listening to books in the car.
teelgee, To Kill a Mockingbird read by Sissy Spacek was excellent!
There's a group here on LT for audiobook listeners. It's a great place to share what's good and what's not. ...
... in particular the time they spent in Kansas after the Clutter murders, and the rumors that Capote is the real author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Voices by Arnaldur Indridason, another in the mystery series set in Iceland.
Its set at Xmas and in a grand hotel, the Santa has been stabbed ...
... come in handy. We recently finished Jane Eyre (read in a so-so manner by Juliet Mills) and we're now listening to To Kill A Mockingbird read spectacularly by Sissy Spacek.
Just finished Lace Reader, am listening to To Kill A Mockingbird (which is read so intelligently by Sissy Spacek) in the car with my daughter, and at bedtime, am reading At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman, and The Niagara River by new U.S. poet Laureate Kay Ryan. Oh and have just begun.. ...
... them fondly from 20 years or so ago but don't really recall much about the specifics of the story. Recently I've re-read To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse-Five, Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid's Tale. I bought a new copy of Watership Down about a year ago. I read and loved it ...
>66,
I'm with you. I tried To Kill A Mockingbird in 3rd grade. The words weren't too hard, but was I ever bored (love it now, by the way).
... bringing in popular young adult and children's novels that can be deconstructed and analyzed in the same way we would To Kill A Mockingbird. I'm not saying they're on the same "literary" level (and haven't been canonized, that's for sure), but they would interest young students enough to ...
This week's giveaway is to celebrate Banned/Challenged Books Week. A package giveaway of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and an autographed copy of Mockingbird, A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields is up for grabs at lookingforpenguins in Freebies, Book Giveaways and Contests : Giveaway in honor of Banned/Challenged Books Week (Sep 28, 2008, 3:56am)
This week's giveaway is to celebrate Banned/Challenged Books Week. A package giveaway of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and an autographed copy of Mockingbird, A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields is up for grabs at MusicMom41 in 1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Authors Alphabetically (Sep 25, 2008, 5:22pm)
... want a real treat, read Habit of Being, a collection of her letters edited by Sally Fitzgerald, her very good friend.
To Kill a Mockingbird is also one of the best American novels of the 20th century. Harper Lee was probably right to stop there-- Harper Lee herself said that she had a ...
... feel the same way! :-) smiling just thinking about it!
#95 Thaydra
I almost envy you being able to discover To Kill a Mockingbird for the 1st time. I've read it many times and it never loses its appeal.
... town for the first two. I think it's a great idea and it has gotten me to read two books I had never thought I'd read.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a great book and they did a fantastic job with the movie as well.
I'm a bit lost on the sequence here. So I chose To Kill a Mockingbird from the library of hemlokgang. I also noted it is in the library of callmejacx too!
I finished my ER book, Murder on the Eiffel Tower and To Kill a Mockingbird. And I read The Princess and the Hound - really good, I totally recommend that one. Mockingbird is for my town's Big Read. They're having some fun discussion and a movie screening at the library and ending with a ...
... butter and 8 eggs in the cake, but it was 3 layers. And the bourbon was just in the filling on this one. It was in honor of To Kill a Mockingbird. They're doing cooking classes based on the book for The Big Read this year. Next time it's stuffed pork chops, sweet potato casserole, and crackling ...
... Speaks to us from across the span of time.
I've just started reading Emile Zolas' 20 book cycle Les Rougon-Macquart (The Kill is the second in the series ) and so far I've found his themes very modern for books written a century and a half ago. Or mabe it's just that peaple don't change, ...
... to read the more modern stuff--I took a women writers class where we read Bridget Jones's Diary.
And I must have read To Kill A Mockingbird half a dozen times in middle and early high school.
... of it (even though I won't be doing that until mid- to late- October). I'm currently working on my oral interpretation of To Kill a Mockingbird this Tuesday. In my English literature class, we're preparing to read J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I'm ...
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee from callmejacx library. This book is on my wishlist.
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... sur les autres!
Penses à écrire le nom des livres entre crochets pour que LT fasse un lien automatique comme ça : ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur.
... he would learn a little something and maybe come around to reading. When, in his junior year, he told me he was reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the 3rd time, I was irritated. To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful book that I think all young people should read, but 3 times? I had him ask his ...
... avec la rentrée des classes ^^) ... même si, par rapport aux autres lecteurs, du coup, j'ai pas mal de retard ^^
1 / Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur de Harper Lee ***
→ J'ai été très agréablement surprise par ce roman que j'ai lu non parce qu'a priori il m'attirait mais ...
53. Circumstantial Evidence by Pete Earley
This takes place in Monroeville, Alabama, the home of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The man wrongfully convicted of this crime, was the first man ever released from death row in Alabama.
53. Circumstantial Evidence by Pete Earley
This takes place in Monroeville, Alabama, the home of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The man wrongfully convicted of this crime, was the first man ever released from death row in Alabama.
#215 theaelizabet
I have that audio version or To Kill A Mockingbird but I haven't listened yet. I'm saving it for a long road trip sometime. I know once I start listening I won't want to stop. I'm glad to know it's well read. Sometimes they are not and it spoils it for me.
I read it ...
@208 DevourerOfBooks
someone correct me if I'm wrong--
I vaguely remember one of the many time I read To Kill a Mockingbird was for a book group and the reviewer said it was based on a true incident and that Scout was based on Harper Lee and Dill (the boy that was visiting) was Truman Capote ...
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Georgia -- Alice Walker, especially The Color Purple; Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Alabama -- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mississippi -- William Faulkner -- especially The Sound and the Fury and Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
Louisiana -- Th ...
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Pigman by Paul Zindel
Plus: ...
... soldier from the Revalutionary War. Every soldier from any war will feel a kinship with J.P. Martin.
La Curée or The Kill (1871-2) by Emile Zola.
This is his second novel of his twenty-novel cycle about the exploits of various members of an extended family during the French Second E ...
... it more accessible. These are very well crafted stories that gave me a renewed appreciation for short stories.
46. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
What can I say about this great American classic? And why did I wait 20 years to reread it?
Since my last post I finished Dubliners and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Dubliners was great! I don't know why I waited so long to read James Joyce. These are extremely well-constructed short stories that are thematically related. I don't read short stories very much, but this book renewed my ...
... the turbulent late 60's. Civil rights, Viet Nam, the Kennedy assignations all had an impact on the country. Reading To Kill a Mockingbird resonated with me then and now.
Plus, as a student in a small town high school, there were times when I felt like Dill...an outsider trying to be ...
I read To Kill a Mockingbird in h.s. and really liked it. However, it has been a LONG time since I was in h.s. My husband and I listened to it on CD this summer while driving on vacation. Sissy Spacek did a great job narrating. And a couple of nights ago, I watched the movie with Gregory Peck. It ...
I read To Kill a Mockingbird in h.s. and really liked it. However, it has been a LONG time since I was in h.s. My husband and I listened to it on CD this summer while driving on vacation. Sissy Spacek did a great job narrating. And a couple of nights ago, I watched the movie with Gregory Peck. It ...
I just read To Kill a Mockingbird a few months ago. You're right, I should have saved it. It would have been perfect.
#5-bluesalamanders- That one is going on the list for this year. Thanks!
#6-Morphidae- The Joy of Cooking is always on my reading list. yum.
To Kill A Mockingbird, with its wonderfully evocative Autumn ending and its "haunted" house!
I just recently read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time and loved it. I have a feeling it will be going on the stack of books I read on an annual basis.
As the month closes out, I'm still reading school stuff. I'm rereading To Kill a Mockingbird for my oral interpretation class. I have to prepare an 8-10 minute segment and I think I'm going to do the trial of Tom and how that promotes equality/ justice. Later on this semester, I have to do a ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful classic! It is my all time favorite book and I try to read it once a year, each time gaining new insights.
How did you like this book?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
... ... I do have a terrible memory for actors and actresses in movies most of the time.
I did like the movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird too. There was only 1 screen version, right? The one I'm referring to is the Gregory Peck black and white version.
... a movie captures the essence of the book. The BBC's Pride and Prejudice did that and I would add the movie versions of To Kill a Mockingbird and maybe the BBC's latest version of Jane Eyre. Harlan's Coban's Tell No One got a wonderful interpretation this summer with Ne Le Dis A Personne ...
... O'Conner
Wise Blood is the best example of Southern Gothic literature I have ever read. Assuming you don't lump To Kill A Mockingbird in there.
Haven't read anything else by her yet, but I will. Wise Blood is brutal and brilliant, so she is good enough for me.
-- M1001
Ah, I've read Journey to the Centre of the Earth! How about To Kill a Mockingbird?
24. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
25. Memory by Margaret Mahy
26. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
27. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
28. Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
29. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
30. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
31. Walden by Henry David Tho ...
#45
To kill a Mockingbird and Middlemarch are my favorites, too.
Marvellous novels !!!
... enough to revisit, including The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Pride and Prejudice, Fruits Basket, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more. I've sometimes reread a series when the new book was coming out and I wanted to remind myself what happened before. There's even more ...
... Alto, CA, and I'm a novelist. My favorite novels or all time are Middlemarch - which is how I found Group Reads - and To Kill a Mockingbird. Followed closely by everything Jane Austen.
I haven't had time to read much since The Age of Innocence, but am looking forward to being back in ...
... be no different. Mine would be A Wrinkle in Time, Caddie Woodlawn, Little Women Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Christmas Memory, and most definitely A Moveable Feast. Oh, and Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album. These are ...
... that decision is just plain wrong.
What would have happened if the original publishers rejected Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird because it dealt with such sensitive issues as race relations and incest? Should John Irving's Cider House Rules not have been ...
... of an African Explorer by Frank McLynn - nonfiction; told me a lot of things I would rather not have known
286. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - I had never read this classic before and I loved it
287. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech - young adult; very good
288. ...
... by George Eliot
7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
9. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
10. The Leopard by Guiseppe di Lampadusa
1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of the most beautifully written books it ...
14. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I know this is a classic in the English-speaking world and you think I should have read it long ago, but it is not so well known in my country. I enjoyed it very much: it is a funny and entertaining book with a very sad subject. I liked it that the ...
... my review of When We Were Romans. I really liked the book, thought I'm not sure I'd make the leap of comparing it to To Kill a Mockingbird. I've not read Curious Incident of the Dog, so I don't know how it compares there. But I really did enjoy Romans.
Anyway, my review is
... it back up with more questions.
A distinction was made in one comment about "Classic" books versus "Classic" Authors.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I hear listed as a classic book. However, Harper Lee only ever wrote the one book. Does this remove any chance of joining "Classic" ...
... tale about the power of words, reading, and books. It is magnificent, and I love it. In a way, it reminds me of To kill a mockingbird, in that it seems like a story set free into the world, whole and complete, each sentence just as it should be, all parts perfect and necessary.
Nex ...
>53 I agree with you media1000. This is what I wrote about To Kill a Mockingbird when I read it in February 2000:"It is very, very good, in fact it is brilliant. Marvellous, a novel that is profoundly moving, senstitive and fine." The only other L I have read is D H Lawrence. Of his books, I ...
Onward to L-Authors...
It would have to be Harper Lee. I know she only wrote one novel but it is among my favorites: To Kill A Mockingbird.
-- M1001.
... out for use in the library, not able to take them home.
As for books, I was thinking on having a few of the classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet ect ect for academic use as well as popular books like Breaking Dawn that I know will be a long waiting list for.
Does ...
... your book titles with square brackets the site will highlight the title, and make a link to the book's page. Like this To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Still Life with Chickens by Catherine Goldhammer
Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte
Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Ah! Mudbound! That is a book I hesitate to compare to To Kill a Mockingbird, but I can't help it! Both books conjured the same feelings for me. Although not the first Algonquin title I had read, Mudbound was the first book I read as an official Algonkian and was quickly reassured that I had ...
Hi Wolson
I'm glad you enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird and I agree with your keen observation of the scenes playing out right before your eyes.
When reading the book, I can almost hear the sound of the Scout, Jeb and Dill as, in fear, they hurriedly run away from Boo Radley's house; I can ...
36. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Whisper I see why you would go back and read this story again and again. I love when a novel can make you feel like your watching the scenes play out before your eyes which is how I felt reading this book.
I also went ahead bought A Prayer For Owen Me ...
I've always loved To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it in HS and again a year or so ago as my vacation book. My son, however, had to read it in eighth grade and thought it was pretty dull.
I just put down for now The Condition by Jennifer Haigh and although I loved her two other books, I ...
# 316 - Maybe part of the problem with To Kill a Mockingbird is that life is changing so rapidly that the whole world of that book is alien to younger people. There are some of us who remember when the whole country was (give or take the degree of prejudice) like that portrayed in the book. To ...
316: Ellette
imo To Kill a Mockingbird is the rare book that's better in its movie version.
I think the most recent book I've abandoned would be To Kill a Mocking Bird. We were assigned it in school, and when it was handed out all our teacher could say about it was that it was such a monumental book, a classic for all ages, blah blah blah. I read probably half way through it, skipping ...
... how they do the weighted most commonly shared book. I know at least three of us have Lord Jim and several of us have To kill a Mockingbird and yet they don't appear on the list.
My husband introduced me to To Kill A Mockingbird. I highly doubt that I would have picked that book to read. I loved this book. I only read books once, only because there are so many out there that I need to read.
My husband thought I would enjoy the movie too. I was disspointed in the ...
#134
What did you like so much in To Kill A Mockingbird that made you reread it three times? I love it too. Middlemarch is on my list to finish this summer.
35. So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz
Started reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
Two novels I imagine will "live within me" forever:
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
and
Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Two wonderful stories written by two magnificent authors.
... Ward
129. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
130. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
131. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
... that are very much like old friends. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are the three that I re-read, gaining new insights each time.
... bit, very apologetically.
Not SF, but for me the first example of 'Good Book' and 'Good Film' that springs to mind is To Kill a Mockingbird.
... the pieces and move on. For the most part, law school is boring and tedious. Beer and sex were helpful diversions."
35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. "Deep down, every lawyer wants to believe they could be Atticus Finch. I would have settled for believing I could be Gregory Peck. ...
Oops, double post.
In my high school years I remember reading for English class:
- Summer of My German Soldier
- To Kill A Mockingbird (I read it in 8th grade, but I know it was taught in a lot of my high school's classes)
- Macbeth
- Hamlet
- Romeo & Juliet
- Wuthering Heights
- Jane Eyre
- The ...
Just in from my library trip this evening:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which shamingly I have never read
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Importance ...
Among the titles I read for my honors and AP English classes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Great Gatsby
Mayor of Casterbridge
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Stranger (English language translation)
A Raisin in the Sun
and others...
Add me as a recommendation for To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition to being a great-a-whole-lot-of-things, it's a great coming of age story from Scout's point of view.
Not sure how unsettling a book you want to consider, but Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro would fit this category and is an ...
... order:
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (I read this over and over and over)
It by Stephen King
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Harry Potter Series
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Anne of Green Gables books
The Little House on the Prairie ...
... and in a poor school district, seeing a live play was pretty much out of the question.) As I recall, we also watched To Kill A Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now (in conjunction with reading Heart of Darkness), and a video adaptation of a Flannery O'Connor short story.
To add my voice to ...
... Dairy Queen, and the sequel, Off Season is good, as well. I'd also recommend Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers. To Kill a Mockingbird would pair nicely with In search of Mockingbird for a modern look at an old classic - and it also has a heroine who runs away, shades of Holden Caufi ...
... by John Marsden. Another recommendation would be Peace Like A River by Leif Enger. It is vaguely reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
...
Harper Lee is quite a remarkable writer and person. A childhood friend of Truman Capote, the character of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird was modeled after him.
She helped research In Cold Blood, most likely wrote some of it, but alas weird, sneaky, insecure Truman never gave her ...
8. 1001 Books
(1) To Kill a Mockingbird
(2) Oliver Twist
(3) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
(4) Ethan Frome
(5) In Cold Blood
(6) He Knew He Was Right
(7) Enduring Love
(8) Candide
7. American Fiction
(1) To Kill a Mockingbird
(2) Etham Frome
(3) In Cold Blood
(4) The Appeal
... like it was great.
For a book dealing with the south, prejudice and small town values, there is nothing that can rival To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlow Ruiz Zafon
There are others, but those are the ...
I've lost track of the times I've read Jane Eyre. It's one of the books (along with Pride and Prejudice, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Little Women) that I seem to read once a year, if not more often.
I've heard about Wide Sargasso Sea, but haven't read it. A friend of mine did read it ...
... Alan Sillitoe
Room at the Top by John Braine
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Finished To kill a Mockingbird
What a marvellous novel !!!
Starting to read:
Tilfeldigvis - Arial Footlights forhistorie by Silje E. Fretheim (LT-member: Svada, and an LT author)
... winners, not having set out to read them specifically. No, it's not an artifact of choosing from the 1001 list because only To Kill a Mockingbird was on it.
I had planned on reading more Australian "classics" but only read Voss. More globally - not yet. Pretty much mainstream so far.
One ...
Currently reading:
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I've got a Norwegian edition: Drep ikke en sangfugl
Still reading David Copperfield
and
Three chapters of To kill a Mockingbird (in Norwegian: Drep ikke en sangfugl)
... the author approaches it from a research perspective. What would books like The Great Gatsby or Pride and Prejudice or To Kill A Mockingbird be if not historical to us? It doesn't sound right to say they are contemporary... I'm curious because I'm not sure how to tag my books that fall in ...
... me to read books re. Capote and his life. He truly was a haunted, strange little creature. My favorite all time book is To Kill a Mockingbird and it became more special when I learned that Harper Lee built the character of Dill on her childhood friend -- Truman Capotre.
I read Happy all the time so now Ive got to wait till tomarow to get To Kill a Mockingbird
Here's what I have read so far in 2008:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee -- probably my 50th re-reading of it. It is still my favorite book.
2. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Read this for my book club. It was inspiring for all of us, and led to a ...
I'm still reading David Copperfield
Next from my TBR pile:
To kill a Mockingbird
'Hunger' by Knut Hamsun (reread, this time in English)
Mister Pip
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Enchantress of Florence
... point. Time for another re-cap.
#1 Walk two moons
#2 All quiet on the western front
#3 Cold comfort farm
#4 To kill a mocking bird
#5 Straight man
#6 The Yiddish policemen's union
#7 Any human heart
#8 Age of innocence
#9 Dark places
#10 Suite Francaise
... anyway because of various edition issues). It would just be the average number of books owned per author, so owning To Kill a Mockingbird would make the number lower.
Once my mother gets The Host I will read it. Im gonna read To Kill a Mockingbird once Im done with the book Im reading. Ummm... I might read Eragon Ummm How to deal I have to read. Umm I will probably think of more later.
... of the Soil (in English and Norwegian: Markens grøde)
How Fiction works by James Wood (in English), non-fiction
To kill a Mockingbird (in Norwegian: Drep ikke en sangfugl)
Leaves of Grass (in Norwegian: Gresstrå), poetry
etc. etc. etc. ;-o ??
... by Charles Dickens
4. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
5. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
And I'm looking forward to To kill a Mockingbird and David Copperfield
Currently reading:
"Drep ikke en sangfugl" (To kill a Mockingbird) by Harper Lee.
#51 rickinrhombus - That sounds great to me! To Kill a Mockingbird is at the top of my list of favorite books. Each time I read it, I get lost in their little world. I never fail to laugh and cry my way through the book.
... - Haruki Murakami, always a favorite
Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson, took me a while to get into but definitely worth it
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, yes, a first read for me and so worth the "hype" :)
Soul Thief - Charles Baxter, one I might need to reread to totally figure it out
...
I went to the bookstore today and bought:
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and
Fruits Basket Vol. 15 by Natsuki Takaya
They're all books I've read before and enjoyed.
I agree, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only the best T-book, but one of the best books in the entire list. I don't know of too many other dramas with such perfect characters, themes, plots and conflict.
But since it is hardly a fair contest to the other T-Books, of which many are great books, I ...
... I own a lot of the T-titles, but I haven't actually read that many of them. I guess the best of the bunch was To Kill a Mockingbird, although I read it a very long time ago.
I note To Kill a Mockingbird on your list. This is my all-time favorite book...right up there with A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
... his history - Kenneth Allsop
10. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
11. Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
12. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
13. The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
14. Bone: Lejos de Boneville - ...
... in the Gangster category.
Finally, the one number one that I have absolutely no beef with at all.....drumroll please.....To Kill A Mockingbird. Great book, great movie. I cried at the clips they showed, and since they only showed about 3 minutes worth and from various scenes, I think that's ...
... Every few years, I reread it just to keep it's lessons fresh.
The same year I first read The Chosen, I also read To Kill a Mockingbird, Night by Elie Weisel, The Color Purple, and All Quiet on the Western Front - All of which are staples in my library and my life.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great question, Nickelini. The most commonly shared book in this group (after "1001" itself) is To Kill a Mockingbird. That's not to say everyone's read it, but it's also a likely candidate.
... little girl's nickmane was Scout, her real name was Jean Louise. This happens to also be my name and when I first read To Kill a Mockingbird I really identified with the tom boy that shared my real name! (But, honestly, I don't think many people know Scout's real name.)
And as for ...
... for over $100. FYI This is a YA series written in Cincinnati Ohio in the 1920's. Harper Lee mentions The Gray Ghost in To Kill a Mockingbird.
The sad thing is that so many people consider books to be little more than trash regardless of title or condition.
#18
I just finished To Kill A Mockingbird and loved it. I hope you will too.
#47 I have the same problems with sarcasm.
I could not get through To Kill a Mocking Bird, maybe I'll try it again in a few years.
Who defines the classics anyways????
... and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
#18 koalatees - I have read To Kill a Mockingbird several times. It's my favorite book of all time. I hope you enjoy it!
So far this month, I have read Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature and Claws.
I plan to read To Kill a Mockingbird next.
... of course! I'm not sure y'all and fixin' would work for The Time Machine. We could record a wonderful version of To Kill a Mockingbird! I want to be Scout! :)
... books I remember reading after that were Shakespeare (because we read them out loud), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird (both of which I love), and Lord of the Flies which I hate. I managed to get through by just listening to the discussion on pretty much everything ...
Having read and recorded a story for my mum, definetly pick very short chapters. to kill a mockingbird is not long, and has fairly short chapters, but each was taking 30mins+ to read out loud. The whole book - 300 pages at most was about 17hrs of speach. Reading aloud is much much slower ...
It sounds similar to the cover I have for To Kill a Mockingbird but I don't think that's right... going to go do some hunting...
Reave the Just after burning through to kill a mockingbird in a day.
#201 comparative re-read! wow. How do you do that? read them side by side, or finish one first and then the other or ???
To Kill a Mockingbird is read and my review joins the other 223 of this great work.
Shootingstar: how about The Alcestiad just because it's a got a strange name and isn't reviewed by anyone.
For me please choose anything not tagged unowned.
I first read this book at high school, and saw the film starring Gregory Peck not long after that. I had forgotten almost everything about the book except its setting and ...
Book 2: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(for book club, chosen by Hazel)
Wow. Wonderful. I am in love with Atticus Finch.
What I enjoyed most were the dry humour and the small, sparse ...