Harper Lee: Go set a watchman (2015)
341 pages
English language
Published May 10, 2015
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. She struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Wow. I will have to digest this for some time before I can adequately summarize my feelings about this book. For now a simple "wow" (spoken on an inhale) will have to suffice.
Wow. I will have to digest this for some time before I can adequately summarize my feelings about this book. For now a simple "wow" (spoken on an inhale) will have to suffice.
Very interesting to read, especially when you consider what this book is. I am glad that To Kill a Mockingbird got written and published in the end, but I'm also glad that I had the opportunity to read this book.
Very interesting to read, especially when you consider what this book is. I am glad that To Kill a Mockingbird got written and published in the end, but I'm also glad that I had the opportunity to read this book.
I'm still processing this. I should mention that although I know there's been a lot of mixed press about this book, I ignored all of it so I could form my own opinion, which I'm kinda still doing. There is some outdated "common" thinking that needs to be sorted through, and some parts were very difficult for me. That's probably the point, but still.
After everything, I think it's about learning to love (or keep loving) someone in spite of a sharp difference in beliefs. This is a difficult concept, and something I think we're all faced with more and more these days. It's worth the reading, but don't expect it to be easy.
(Also worth noting, there are many aspects of this book that I think could have been improved upon - but considering the reasons we're even reading it in the first place, we'll probably need to look …
I'm still processing this. I should mention that although I know there's been a lot of mixed press about this book, I ignored all of it so I could form my own opinion, which I'm kinda still doing. There is some outdated "common" thinking that needs to be sorted through, and some parts were very difficult for me. That's probably the point, but still.
After everything, I think it's about learning to love (or keep loving) someone in spite of a sharp difference in beliefs. This is a difficult concept, and something I think we're all faced with more and more these days. It's worth the reading, but don't expect it to be easy.
(Also worth noting, there are many aspects of this book that I think could have been improved upon - but considering the reasons we're even reading it in the first place, we'll probably need to look past that.)
