Journal Entry 1 by crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, February 14, 2008

This is one of the "1001 books you must read before you die".
Different cover art.

Book Description:
"At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her.

The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves — appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus.

Atticus is a man of unfaltering good will and humor, and partly because of this, the children become involved in some disturbing adult mysteries: fascinating Boo Radley, who never leaves his house; the terrible temper of Mrs. Dubose down the street; the fine distinctions that make the Finch family "quality"; the forces that cause the people of Maycomb to show compassion in one crisis and unreasoning cruelty in another.

Also because Atticus is what he is, and because he lives where he does, he and his children are plunged into a conflict that indelibly marks their lives—and gives Scout some basis for thinking she knows just about as much about the world as she needs to."
 

Journal Entry 2 by crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Reserved for Round 7 of the OZ VBB.
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Chosen by livrecache - posted Monday 10th. 

Journal Entry 3 by livrecache from Hobart, Tasmania Australia on Thursday, March 20, 2008

Arrived early this week, thank you. I've been too slack to journal it. I saw the movie (again) quite recently, which always makes me want to re-read the book.