To Kill A Mockingbird author makes rare appearance

5 Comments

1. Eric Mayer says:

   January 11, 2007 at 7:17 pm

   Thanks for the link. Amazing. I passed the story on to Mary, a big Harper Lee fan.
2. cassie-b says:

   January 12, 2007 at 8:06 am

   That’s really exciting. I hope it was a very good performance.

   Cas
3. violetismycolor says:

   January 15, 2007 at 7:35 pm

   How very cool! That book is one of my all-time faves. It must have been very exciting for those present.
4. Reenie says:

   January 15, 2007 at 9:36 pm

   I was saving a comment until I attended the event Sewanee. It’s late and I’m tired, but dear friend that you are, you have already read my post. xoxo
5. Barbara says:

   January 16, 2007 at 12:04 pm

   I came across that news story completely by accident, searching the keyword “reclusive”. I’m glad you all enjoyed it.

   I don’t remember when I read To Kill a Mockingbird. Junior high school maybe. I saw the movie a few times on TV first.

   The rabid dog incident stood out for me in the movie, because my mom told us a story about her dad killing one during the same era. What a horror that disease was before vaccines. I understand a modern-day cardiologist who’s studied Edgar Allan Poe’s death thinks he died of rabies.

   I didn’t like the movie as much as the book. For some reason the role of racism was murky for me in the movie, but made clear in the writing, and I felt that I finally “got” the story. Maybe I was too young to get the movie, earlier, and I was a pretty naive kid.

   Time for a reread perhaps. Surely our little county library branch has that one. (I long to move near a college again, like Reenie did, so I have a good library available. This one just doesn’t cut it—or my reading tastes are too varied and weird for this little town.)