To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

I seem to have gone through middle and high school without reading most of those books that everyone had to read 'Lord of the Flies', 'The Great Gatsby' and of course 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. I didn't get to it until college, and last month it was chosen by my book club.

This book only improves on rereading, the writing is breezy, and Scout's voice (told in memory from some years in the future), is engaging and still the template for precocious children in literature and television and movies today.