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This is one of those books (for me, anyway) that if you didn't read it in English class; you probably haven't read it. That, combined with the fact that I just finished In Cold Blood and want to watch a couple recent movies about Capote and Harper Lee made me really happy when I saw this at Goodwill last night :)

ok I seriously loved this book! Now that I've read In Cold Blood and this, I can watch the Capote movie, the one where Sandra Bullock plays Harper Lee, the movie version of this book, and read this book too!

This was one of those books that my English classes never read, so I hadn't. I can't believe I waited this long to read it! I loved it. I loved that Scout was the narrator, loved how sorry she felt for her kindergarten teacher, I loved how Aunt Alexandra called her "darling" in the end, I loved her overalls, loved Jem's sense of ethics, and I loved Atticus defending Tom Robinson.

When word starts getting around town about the Robinson trial, I love the way Lee gives her opinion. I tried to explain to Atticus that it wasn't so much what Francis said that infuriated me as the way he had said it. "It was like he'd said snot-nose or something." ... "You aren't really a nigger-lover then, are you?" "I certainly am.

This is one of those books that I will re-read the next time I get my hands on a copy. This particular one is going to a friend -- we talked about it over coffee the other day, and she totally made me interested in the movie (Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch? Are you KIDDING? I'm all over that!).

Anyway, I'm glad I finally read this :) Finally.