Kill That Mockingbird

Harper Lee is amazing. Seriously. I don't know if she was brilliant or just lucky, but To Kill A Mockingbird was so good. There was something about the perspective that really did it for me. It's all from the point of this women looking back on the years when she was small and a complete tomboy. It's rather funny, actually.

She is fighting people, swearing, wearing pants. Not what you'd except from a girl of the 1930s. And everyone tells her that. I like her a lot. She has guts.

Everyone of course knows that it's all about racial discrimination, but I got even more than that, things about right and wrong, the big picture items (wow, I've never used that phrase before. I like it.) It talks of good and bad, fairness, cruelty, all that stuff, but it makes everything feel like you jut abosrbed it, not like you are being lectured by your mom or being told your manners suck. A lot books do that, and frankly, it makes me rather mad. So this is good.

When you read a book for school, it pretty much gaurentees that you're going to hate it and get completely bored, just because of the slowness, tests and pointles questions. If you read it for the heck of it, you can actually get it done and enjoy it and not have to listen to anything someone says. I've never noticed how school makes you hate books before, but man it does a good job of it. People really need to redesign English. Cause right now, it sucks. Just saying.