Matar Un Ruiseñor / To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)

from dasam

This is one of those novels I was supposed to read as a youth, but never got around to it. In this case, the consensus is right. Mockingbird Courageously looks at the Jim Crow South and the damage it did to white and black citizens alike. Told from the viewpoint of a precocious girl who has a str...

from LilyRoseShadowlyn

Excellent look inside the south. It pains me to know that things haven't much changed when it comes to PoC and whites. Not just in the south, but all over this country. It's a book that should be read by everyone, and be required reading in high school. Things will never change if they don't chan...

from SunnieB

I first read this book waayyy back when I was in elementary or Jr.High school and before I had seen the movie. I remember it being one of, if not THE first book we had a real discussion about. I loved it! Soon after that, when I saw the movie on TV and put definate faces to Scout, Jem and Atticus...

from 19vatermit64

I just finished reading this book. It was hard to put it down. The book is told in the first person by the youngest child of a lawyer in a small town in Alabama during the Depression. Several themes are explored: racism, standing up for the truth, living in a small town in the South, coming of ag...

from Othemts

With much joy and a little apprehension I returned to one of my Favorite Books of All Time after nearly 25 years. It turned out to be better than I remembered. It was interesting the details I remembered (Calpurnia not wanting to stay in the house with high ceilings on a cold night, Scout's "Hey,...