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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Rob Dunbar wrote:
Is anyone familiar with the Harper Lee's bio? Fascinating woman. But such tragedy! All those years she spent working on her second novel, only to have the only manuscript stolen in a burglary -- I think it probably would have killed me. No wonder she stopped writing.


I have not read her bio but what I know about her that to me is fascinating is that she and Truman Capote were next door neighbors as children. And that when he wrote "In Cold Blood" she helped him gather the notes for it when they went to Kansas to interview the people.
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One of my favorite books. Have seen the movie several times also. Gregory Peck was the perfect choice for the role of Atticus Finch.
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I read this book years ago. I have it on my long list of "to read". My daughter just read this for her Advanced English class in school.

She kept asking me about parts because I told her I read it. I've read it so long ago that I can't remember any of it! yikes
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Was on our suggested reading list back in high school, never got to it though... This article from "The Guardian" gives some interesting info:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/se ... loved-book

Definitely on my to-read-list :)
"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were
I have not seen as others saw
I could not bring my passions from a common spring
From the same source I have not taken my sorrow
I could not awake my heart to joy at the same tone
And all I loved - I loved alone"

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