To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, published in 1960, is an American classic Pulitzer Prize winning novel that needs no review in this blog. I hadn’t read this book or seen the movie in decades, and when I saw it on the NY Times list as one of the best 30 audiobooks of all time, I decided to give it a listen. The book was narrated by Sissy Spacek was all I hoped for. Spacek was fabulous, so I recommend this book at the top of my recommendation scale. Adding to the joy was my walking along the Baja shoreline while throwing frisbees for my dog. Life does not get any better.

 

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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

So much has been written about Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, I hesitate to even bother to review it here.  So I’ll be brief.

It’s 1955 and “Scout” Jean Louise Finch is now 26 years old and has moved to New York.  She comes home to Alabama to visit her aging father, Atticus and learns he has more bigoted views than she thought he did.  They argue about it and she decides she loves him anyway.  That’s it.  There’s more plot in a Kardashian reality TV show.

This is no To Kill a Mockingbird.  In fact Harper Lee wrote it before To Kill a Mockingbird and thought it not worthy of being published.  She was right.  Apparently someone very close to the now 89 year old Harper Lee needed some cash and knew something about marketing.  What a scam.