Yes, because it's one of *those* books . . .selfavowedgeekFebruary 14 2009, 15:37:27 UTC
It's in my all-time faves list.
I agree with everything you wrote. One passage that particularly stuck out to me was Scout's discussing how she learned to read and--I'm paraphrasing--she says she wasn't quite sure exactly when the lines broke into words and sentences she could understand.
If I may ask, which part of the South for you? I'm in SE GA, one hour from the Low Country.
Re: Yes, because it's one of *those* books . . .selfavowedgeekFebruary 15 2009, 02:02:27 UTC
You're absolutely right about Raleigh. I'm so far south and so *deep* south that folks invest more money in their hunting trucks and satellite dishes that their front porches.
I re-read Mockingbird this year too. I'm so glad. Sometimes I get caught up in the mindset of: I-already-read-that-and-there-are-so-many-new-books-to-read. What a mistake! There's so much I missed as 15 year old. It makes me want to dig out a copy of A Separate Peace and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, two of my other high school favorites.
I have the exact same mentality. I don't re-read a lot of books because there are so many out there, both old and new, that I want to get to, but you always get more out of a book upon re-reading it.
My big eye-opener in high school was Orwell's 1984, which is perhaps my all-time favorite novel; I re-read it recently because I was teaching it for a class, and in addition to the incredible narrative, I finally understood Orwell's politics as relayed in Goldstein's book. It has informed much of what I'm trying to accomplish in my own novel.
(Never really got into A Separate Peace, plus a classmate totally spoiled the end for me.)
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I agree with everything you wrote. One passage that particularly stuck out to me was Scout's discussing how she learned to read and--I'm paraphrasing--she says she wasn't quite sure exactly when the lines broke into words and sentences she could understand.
If I may ask, which part of the South for you? I'm in SE GA, one hour from the Low Country.
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My good friend Jamie Bishop grew up in Pine Mountain, GA, and his family still lives there.
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But I love it.
Only several hours from Pine Mountain.
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My big eye-opener in high school was Orwell's 1984, which is perhaps my all-time favorite novel; I re-read it recently because I was teaching it for a class, and in addition to the incredible narrative, I finally understood Orwell's politics as relayed in Goldstein's book. It has informed much of what I'm trying to accomplish in my own novel.
(Never really got into A Separate Peace, plus a classmate totally spoiled the end for me.)
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