Harper Lee
It's been a while, but i figured today's news deserved logging back in to make an entry.
Harper Lee has announced that after 50 years she is finally having another book published. When i spotted the first article i was completely frozen in disbelief and so scared that it was fake. That would be a completely different kind of cruel than stupid fake stories about movie remakes or whatever. This is my all time favorite book. When my teacher assigned it to my class in 8th grade, she pulled me aside afterwards to give me her copy and then told me that she knew i would be tempted to read ahead, but asked that i please resist from doing so. I was good for a while, but i ended up giving in. i don't now how many times i've reread it since, but i can't wait to read it again before this one comes out in July. So crazy that i just started reading Lee's bio this weekend. I mean, that was a huge deal on it's own She's so reclusive, i seemed like such a big deal just to learn more about her life. I never imagined we'd ever get to read anything else from her.
I was reading that his new book, Go Set a Watchman, was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird but the publisher told Lee that they most liked the flashback scenes to the character's childhood, and could she write a novel based around that instead. Go Set the Watchman was set aside in a safe place, she completely forgot that she still had it, meanwhile Mockingbird won the Pulitzer and she thought nothing she wrote could ever be as significant as that. But i am so excited to find out more about what happened to Scout, Atticus and Boo. Also to read what her writing is like all on her own, without any editors' influence. Once i confirmed that the article was real, and that it was exploding all over Facebook, i jumped up to tell a co-worker, only i had to pause because i found myself getting a little choked up. This is so amazing. Once i know the exact release date, i plan on requesting that day off (which means i'll have to come in on my day off, because you know it's going to be an S.O.S. Only Harry Potter was probably a bigger Strict On Sale than this will be) and then taking it to a quiet coffee shop and just read allllll day long. Sigh. i can't wait.
Unrelated, but yesterday i had one of the booksellers call me to help a customer who was upset with an unwanted charge. I walked up, she was an elderly woman with her husband, and asked what i could do for her and she said, "Oh. You're the manager? I thought you were just a teenager." I immediately thought, ok here we go. She's either going to ask 1) if i'm really a manager 2) insist that i am not, or 3)"Oh i thought there was a manager that was a man. Is he here?"
But no, she just seemed so pleasantly surprised that i could help her. Through the whole process she just kept telling me again and again how wonderful of a job i was doing and that she was so impressed with how i was handling the situation. At the end she finally asked how long i had worked for the company, and when i told her 10 years she said, "What!? it can't be that long! You're could only be 18!" So maybe she was only impressed with me because she thought i was a kid playing a being professional, but i've decided i'll take that any day over some of the others. Also, i am aware that i do not actually look 18, and that really it's that the older you get, young people appear younger and younger to you. Still was nice to hear though.
Harper Lee has announced that after 50 years she is finally having another book published. When i spotted the first article i was completely frozen in disbelief and so scared that it was fake. That would be a completely different kind of cruel than stupid fake stories about movie remakes or whatever. This is my all time favorite book. When my teacher assigned it to my class in 8th grade, she pulled me aside afterwards to give me her copy and then told me that she knew i would be tempted to read ahead, but asked that i please resist from doing so. I was good for a while, but i ended up giving in. i don't now how many times i've reread it since, but i can't wait to read it again before this one comes out in July. So crazy that i just started reading Lee's bio this weekend. I mean, that was a huge deal on it's own She's so reclusive, i seemed like such a big deal just to learn more about her life. I never imagined we'd ever get to read anything else from her.
I was reading that his new book, Go Set a Watchman, was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird but the publisher told Lee that they most liked the flashback scenes to the character's childhood, and could she write a novel based around that instead. Go Set the Watchman was set aside in a safe place, she completely forgot that she still had it, meanwhile Mockingbird won the Pulitzer and she thought nothing she wrote could ever be as significant as that. But i am so excited to find out more about what happened to Scout, Atticus and Boo. Also to read what her writing is like all on her own, without any editors' influence. Once i confirmed that the article was real, and that it was exploding all over Facebook, i jumped up to tell a co-worker, only i had to pause because i found myself getting a little choked up. This is so amazing. Once i know the exact release date, i plan on requesting that day off (which means i'll have to come in on my day off, because you know it's going to be an S.O.S. Only Harry Potter was probably a bigger Strict On Sale than this will be) and then taking it to a quiet coffee shop and just read allllll day long. Sigh. i can't wait.
Unrelated, but yesterday i had one of the booksellers call me to help a customer who was upset with an unwanted charge. I walked up, she was an elderly woman with her husband, and asked what i could do for her and she said, "Oh. You're the manager? I thought you were just a teenager." I immediately thought, ok here we go. She's either going to ask 1) if i'm really a manager 2) insist that i am not, or 3)"Oh i thought there was a manager that was a man. Is he here?"
But no, she just seemed so pleasantly surprised that i could help her. Through the whole process she just kept telling me again and again how wonderful of a job i was doing and that she was so impressed with how i was handling the situation. At the end she finally asked how long i had worked for the company, and when i told her 10 years she said, "What!? it can't be that long! You're could only be 18!" So maybe she was only impressed with me because she thought i was a kid playing a being professional, but i've decided i'll take that any day over some of the others. Also, i am aware that i do not actually look 18, and that really it's that the older you get, young people appear younger and younger to you. Still was nice to hear though.