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Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird (Stray Thoughts)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:58:03 GMT

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is ostensibly about a white man defending a black man accused of raping a white girl in the Alabama of the 1930s. But it has so many more layers. It is about irrational and ludicrous attitudes of the pre-civil rights south. It is also about one decent man [...]

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Jo's Book Nook Opens Reading of "To Kill A Mockingbrid" (The Leaky Cauldron)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:25:55 GMT

It is time once again to dust off your classics, for Jo's Book Nook is now starting to read the Harper Lee novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Our Non-Harry Potter Book opens up today with the reading of this book...

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Mad Men: Flight One (Glorious Noise)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:24:04 GMT

Episode two of GLONO's favorite show peels back more layers and exposes the characters as nearly formed people. Somewhere Harper Lee is smiling.

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To Kill A Mocking Bird - Updated for 2008 (small dead animals)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:44:23 GMT

Uppity blacks lusting after white women because of their legendary phalluses. A Harper Lee novel? Nope, just the way Barack Obama supporters view the world. Where have you gone, Atticus Finch?...

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What’s in a name? An author, a dancer, sometimes a winning racer (Pet Connection Blog)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:49:38 GMT

So, you go around thinking that Harper is a pretty cool name, shared only by Harper Lee and Charlaine Harris’s fictional character Harper Connelly (who finds dead people; sort of apropos for a dog that likes finding dead things). Then you meet a woman at Starbucks, who fusses over your cute Cavalier puppy as the [...]

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BBC Top 100 books survey (Hiraeth)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:15:35 GMT

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles...

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Book meme (Uncool)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:01:00 GMT

via Seeking Solace . Books I've read are in bold , books I started but never quite finished are in italics . 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible (read all of New Testament and a few books of the OT) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty...

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The Danger of Obama’s Current High–a lesson from Harper Lee (Dangerous Intersection)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:17:52 GMT

Consider this comment regarding Barack Obama by Joan Walsh of Salon.com: The only downside I can see right now is Obama being depicted as enjoying the adulation a little too much. After the speech, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he spoke with Obama this morning, and that “he seemed very up, very confident [...]

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~ Harper Lee, writer (All 4 My Gals)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:52:00 GMT

You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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MOCKINGBIRDS (The Goat Rope)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT

Don't kill the mockingbird. Image courtesy of wikipedia. A pivotal scene in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird involves a mob about to lynch an African American accused of raping a white woman. Just as they are about to storm the jail, disaster is averted when the young girl Scout strikes up a personal conversation with someone in the mob. That little intervention brought the man back...

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ten books to read before you..... (kate rothwell)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:26:00 GMT

here's the AOL list of ten books to read before you die: 10) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 9) Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 8) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 7) Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 6) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5) The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown 4) The Stand by Stephen King 3) Harry Potter (the series) by JK Rowling 2) Lord of the Rings (the series) by...

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It's All In How You Say It. (Dixie Peach)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:35:00 GMT

One of my favorite lines in literature comes from To Kill a Mockingbird . It's at the beginning of the book where Harper Lee writes in the voice of the main character, Scout, of how hot Alabama summers were when Scout was growing up. Scout describes how "Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."....

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Scout as the Voice of Reason in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (Thinking made Easy)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:43:23 GMT

This paper intends to analyze the voice of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The voice of the novel is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, a young 8 year old girl who narrates the entire novel in her eyes. This is an integral factor which would determinate the...

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Pride and Prejudice Chosen One of the Greatest Novels of All Time! (Jane Austen's World)

noreply@blogger.com (Laurel Ann) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:47:00 GMT

The British newspaper the Telegram has announced today the top 50 greatest novels ever written from a poll conducted at Play.com , a UK based online retailer of books, DVDs and music. Toping the list is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird , followed by JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings , C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . Jane Austen’s Emma...

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To Kill a Mockingbird 'greatest novel ever' (News.com.au)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:23:00 GMT

HARPER Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted the greatest novel of all time in a list that suggests Dan Brown is held in higher regard than Goerge Orwell, Emily Bronte and Charles Dickens.

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My favourite literary characters! (Hallucinations!)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:55:00 GMT

Shyam asked me to do a very interesting tag, the name of which I have shortened to "List your ten favourite characters from literature." So here they are! Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird; Author: Harper Lee) - THE man. Smart, caring, bold, stands up for what he thinks is right, and a great father - in my view, he is the best character to have walked the literary earth. Mr. Darcy (Pride...

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Love in the summer stock wings (Christian Science Monitor)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:00:42 GMT

Who doesn’t dream of just one more book by their favorite author – a sequel to “Stuart Little” buried in E.B. White’s Maine barn, say, or news that Harper Lee has been sitting on a follow-up to “To Kill a Mockingbird” all these years? So a new novel by Newbery Award-winner Madeleine L’Engle is, by [...]

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"Books for Attorneys" (Stark County Law Library Blog)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:10:49 GMT

From the site: Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird and John Grisham's The Firm and The Client, all come to...

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Author of the Greatest Fictional Lawyer of All Time Speaks Out (Well, Spoke) (Legal Profession Blog)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:08:32 GMT

Posted by Alan Childress That writer would be Nelle Harper Lee -- we southerners tend to go by our middle names, or by two names [President Clinton should have been Billy Jeff]. And the lawyer would be Atticus Finch. If...

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Southern Author Meme! (Maggie Reads)

noreply@blogger.com (____Maggie) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:08:00 GMT

M edbie of Medb’s Montage tagged me for this fun author meme. I morphed it to Southern Authors for the challenge. 1. Name your all-time favorite southern author. Why? An easy answer would be Harper Lee and her ultimate southern book To Kill a Mockingbird . But, I’m more complicated; especially since Miss Lee only wrote one book. In my under-educated opinion, Eudora Welty is my all time favorite....

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