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I saw the play on Broadway earlier this month and had to compare with a reread of the book. This story and these characters hold up well to an adult reread. It is a classic for a reason after all.

Side note: I really didn't like what Aaron Sorkin did to Atticus Finch to make a 2019 political point when I watched the play, and I like it even less after a reread of the book.

#30JuneBooks It's #Shocking to me that To Kill a Mockingbird is on the banned books list.
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Thanks for the tag @gradcat - this was fun! (and not as difficult as I expected, but that‘s partly because I keep spreadsheets of the books I‘ve read, so easy to search...! 😳)

It was such a pleasure to revisit this classic. I remembered basically none of the plot since the first time I read it was about ten years ago. What a beautiful novel.

Painted this for the love of TKaM! 🙂

Happy Friyay! 😊 Long weekend this weekend so pretty keeeen 👌🏼

1. Tagged - ‘To Kill a Mockingbird‘ by Harper Lee. Also probably ‘Hamlet‘ and a few John Marsden books 📚

2. Grey 👚

3. Currently binge watching ‘Game of Thrones‘ - up to season 6, NO SPOILERS PLEEAASSEE 😱

4. Hippogriffs and Dragons 🐉 😍

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Tagged
2. Blue
3. The Rain
4. Toothless
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1. To Kill a Mockingbird was banned the year before I was supposed to read it in class but my English teacher slipped me a copy anyway and it blew my 15 year old mind
2. It‘s sort of a wine colour
3. Killing Eve and When They See Us (watched both this week because I have a binge watching problem)
4. Thestrals from Harry Potter

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Purple, it's Prince's birthday
3. Lucifer on Netflix
4. Mermaids
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1. Fantastic day at a physics teachers' course - followed by a fab gym sesh.

2. I've never reread a book! Should I?

3. Who?

4. To Kill a Mockingbird.

End humpday the right way! All invited.

@DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. I've been off work for a few weeks with a bad back and I went back today and had a pretty good day.
2. Tagged
3. #WeTheNorth
4. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

#HumpDayPost @MinDea @DebbieGrillo

1. We are doing our volunteer gig in the Florida Keys. AND, my disabled daughter got a job as a grooming assistant at Petco. 2. To Kill A Mockingbird. 3. Toronto, but I really only read while it‘s on. Hubs is a BB nut. 4. Cry, My Beloved Country. #Humpdaypost.

So glad to finally check this one off my TBR! Since my hard copy is out in the Litsy world somewhere, I decided to listen to the audiobook as part of the #bookfitnesschallenge. Sissy Spacek was a wonderful narrator and I feel she brought Harper Lee‘s words to life. There‘s something rich and woven about the tapestry of characters in this book. I can‘t wait to finally watch the movie, too!

This is my sixth “walk-only” book of #BFC 🎧

5⭐️ First time reading this, and I can understand why it‘s gained praises. I was lucky to get to watch Jeff Daniels playing Atticus. Aaron Sorkin wrote the play, so that‘s another reason why it‘s a must-watch. Gregory Peck as Atticus will always be the classic version, but Sorkin/Daniels delivered it impressively, too! 😍

Today, pick your own pace and your own path. We all need a day to slow down, regroup and recharge....what do you do to relax?

Last book..& I finished the #MayScavengerHunt 🙌🏼💖
I‘m not a fan of graphic novels but this is one exception & it‘s a delight to read & perfect way to revisit this beautiful #Classics by #HarperLee. A story about class & racism and the injustice in society through the eyes of the amazing eight years old girl. This one, just like the original book, I simply have #NoWords except highly recommend anyone to read it!

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing this last night and it was brilliant in every way. I was a huge puddle of emotions by the end.

Nothing can be better than this #CentralPark

This girl dresses up like a ham and finds stuff in a tree and there‘s a trial.
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Thank you @Geeklet for the prompt and @DaveGreen7777 for leading me to it!

The entire town is f$!@ing racist, except for the best dad in the world. There‘s some kids and also a “ghost boy” in there somewhere.

These are a fun idea, I want to do like eight more 😂 #badsummary

I did ok.There have been questions as to how some of the early winners have stood the test of time. This is a Pulitzer quiz that I keep trying and failing to link to.If you check out @thegirlwiththelibrarybag she has the link in correctly.😀

Rereading this one. I don‘t remember too much since I read it probably ten years ago. I love the feeling of learning the characters I know I love all over again.

I can‘t see that masterpiece everybody else does. Maybe it‘s a disadvantage that it often is summarised with “plea against racism”. Yeah, it can be read like that. But it‘s also a portrait of a small village and a childhood.

Overall I‘m disappointed. I expected more without being able to say what that “more” should have been.

I liked the second part much better than the leading, sometimes dragging, first part which is a too long introduction.

I think I figured something else out about this.

Namely why I posted earlier that I cannot relate to the time its plot is set in. Well, I couldn‘t because most of the events and things Scout told absolutely didn‘t feel like in the 1960‘s. And meanwhile where after eight of twelve hours playing time I finally reached _the_ trial Atticus says it‘s 1935.

That misunderstanding definitely is caused by Harper Lee. 🙄

Just finished up my civil service test but before we got started, I figured I'd snap a picture. I sat next to the ham for good luck. I think Miss Jean Louise was there in spirit helping me out. 💓

While I wrote the blurb about “Not only a love story” I had an idea why I kind of struggle with the “Mockingbird”. Maybe it‘s because everybody at least knows the title and that it‘s a plea against racism. It might be that “It‘s-a-classic-and-teaches-us-important-things”-thing.

But to me it teaches nothing. I already know that racism is utter rubbish and so I don‘t need a half a book long introduction to the start of the plot.

Outdated. *yawn*

Hey @Sarah83 – just wanted to hear how your first working week was. 🤗

It was my first complete working week after our vacation, too, and it floored me. I worked about 50 % more than I need to but when being in meetings each day meanwhile no tasks can be done … So I stayed longer just for me. Just that _I_ have the feeling of having gotten something done …

And now I am exhausted.
Unable to read.
So it‘s audiobooking myself to sleep.

Halfway through. Can‘t yet see why everybody is so excited about it. Apart from that it‘s a classic. 🤷🏽‍♀️
For my taste the often childish point of view doesn‘t really fit. Also, the siblings are so well behaving. Even if Lee makes them act “naughtily”.

Plus: I can‘t really relate to the time the story is set in …

I mean, pardon me, upright children getting rifles as Christmas presents⁉️🤔

But seems I‘m pretty much alone with my attitude.

And again: Yes I know it is set in the 1930s But regardless of that I sometimes can only shake my head in disbelief.

Teens that are brought to trial just for hanging around, teachers who don‘t know their pupils and have no ability to empathise.

So outdated that it is very hard for me to find it credible. Additionally, it seems that all is too obviously constructed – just to come to a satisfying point/statement at the end of the story.

Oh dear. This will get difficult.
I know it‘s a classic and I know its plot plays 90 years ago but it‘s a bit black and white isn‘t it (Pun unintended)❓

A smart, good-hearted tomboy, her “I-try-to-know-it-better” brother.
The kind-hearted father, a lawyer. Seems a bit too much cliche for my taste. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I remember I once tried to read this classic as physical book. But I bailed because I found the plot development too slow.

Now, let‘s see if the audiobook suits me better.

I had no idea there was a graphic novel for To Kill a Mockingbird until I came across it in an indie bookstore, and I'm so glad I did! This format makes the book come alive even more. I hadn't read it completely since high school and partly in college, and it really holds up. There's a reason it's a classic, and I know this format will allow it to appeal to more audiences and a larger age range.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it

*sob*

1. House of Leaves
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Goodreads
4. #Ember chilling under her cat tree instead of on it. 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

#catsoflitsy #wondrouswednesday

No brainer!

Reading outside ❤️

“The one thing that doesn‘t abide by majority rule is a person‘s conscience.”

I read this in high school and loved it. It‘s definitely not meant for younger children, but middle schoolers and high schoolers would enjoy this book.

This is arguably one of the greatest books of all time. The language perfectly sets the tone for the book‘s time period. The plot is so unique and well thought out. The characters are all so well developed and incredible. I absolutely love this book.

I read this at my son‘s recommendation, who never reads but had to read this for school. This was my first time reading it and it really was a worthwhile read.

Someone hears the birds out the window... #catsoflitsy

I really enjoyed this graphic novel version of Harper Lee‘s classic. I read it in a day then passed it on to my 10 year old.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

#Birds 🕊
#SpringIntoReading @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

Some books with #birds on the cover! #springintoreading

To kill a mockingbird is a classic, realistic fiction novel by Harper Lee that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This book is read nation wide by kids in middle school and in high school and it was one of my favorites to read. This Book is about tensions that rise I was one of the main characters, Atticus finch, prepares to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman.

Zola wanted to chase the mockingbird, not kill it. She gives it 10/10 paws.