Year of the Book #37 HARPER LEE
“In surveys asking what one book every civilized person should read, Mockingbird routinely finishes second to the Bible…”
If To Kill a Mocking Bird were a tree, it would be a “perennial” and for so many reasons.
No matter how many times you have already read it, you can read it again and it is as if you were reading it for the very first time. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from – the connection is instant. Scout and Jem and Atticus and even poor Boo Radley are folks we know, not characters in a book. But most of all, it’s a book that is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago when Harper Lee wrote it and as it will be till such time as we learn that there is room enough on this good earth for everyone of us.
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” Scout
One of the many joys of doing this series is discovering new things about old favourites. For example, I did not know that Harper Lee was not only a close friend of Truman Capote but that she also helped him in the research of In Cold Blood.
To Kill A Mocking Bird was Harper Lee’s only book. It was enough.
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