Book - 1, To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)

by 

Harper Lee

Book Read: Feb 2015

Note Written: 27 June 2015

To Kill A Mockingbird, the first book I read in my 'Reading 2.0' (as I like to call it). I started reading it sometime in February 2015. For rekindling my spirit to read books, I would like to thank three people- Priscilla Jolly, the great reader and greatest friend; Mir, for having his amazing collection of books (making me want to start my own); and Mark Zuckerberg (founder, Facebook) for choosing 2015 as an year for reading.

'To Kill A Mockingbird' was an awesome choice to start with. I remember once Akhil (my brother) telling me that it was the best book he has read till then. His thought turned out to be true. It is a splendid novel. The characters stay in your heart for a long time. The writing was from the perspective of Scout Finch, a 7 year old girl, and all the innocence and curiosity of that age is reflected, along with the portrayal of the serious theme of racism. my favourite character from the novel is Atticus Finch, as is for many people, I understand. Atticus is the ideal man of principles, the ideal father. I completed reading the book in about a week and half,reading mostly while commuting in the MMTS train and the bus to and from my office (FMC Advertising, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad).

There were many opinions that the movie version of the novel was better than the novel itself, but I didn't think so. The movie captured the soul of the book well, the performances were good, but there were a lot of omissions in it, I felt, and hence not complete.

A great start, a great book!