Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and America's Iconic Film Mean to Us Today | 
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Another book I got mostly for Amy. I really liked TKAM when I read it for the first time a few years ago, but she brought that book into my orbit and I probably wouldn't have ever read it without her advocacy because it's just so far outside my normal reading.
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This book. Excited by how much I am learning about the history of the movie, the politics, cultural events, scouting for the right actors/actresses,how & why Peck got involved, the story inside the set.
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I have not figured out yet whether I am a cockeyed photographer or if it is just that my house is constantly shifting.
Dark & stormy early morning. Listening to the plink plink of sleet as it falls.
Digging yet deeper into the world of TKAM.
so-soThe dust jacket should have warned me - this spends more time with the film than the book. I also agree with a previous reviewer that he never really answers the title question. Perhaps it should be titled “The Cult of Atticus?” If you enjoy books about the making of a movie, you will enjoy this. If “gimlet-eyed” is your favorite expression, you will love this book. Otherwise, it‘s too repetitive and shallow to live up to its title.
Having just reread Mockingbird, and read Go Set a Watchman for the first time, I‘m ready to dive in to this one.
Last #BookmarksNC post. At least for tonight. 😀 I went a little crazy, but in my defense, some of these are presents. (Hence two copies of he tagged book.) NC Littens who didn‘t make it this year, I hope you can next year. It was loads of fun. Look for us on the next episode of Bookwatch on UNC-TV too.
so-soPersonally, I felt like I was left at the end of this still unsure of what the author‘s central thesis was (why does TKAM matter?), however it did raise a lot of interesting questions. The chapter looking at whether TKAM is racist is probably the best example of this, and I think it would make an excellent book club choice for that reason. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickFascinating biography of a book, it‘s relevant characters and all that surround it, inception, publishing, movie making, subsequent reactions on into the publishing of Go Set A Watchman. All in easy read entertainment. Bravo!
pickOne chapter into this biography of a book and can commiserate the relevance to today‘s torrid climate of isms and how, as a noted Faulkner quote, “the past is not dead. It‘s not even past.” Insightful, informative and very entertaining. Still, it‘s sad that it resonates so profusely so many, many years after it first struck a cord. It, indeed, still matters.
