A Second Novel from Harper Lee

[MickintheHam]

After over 50 years another book will be published by the 88 year old author. Famous for her American literary classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird", the author had said she would never publish another book, unless you beleive the stories about Truman Capote. The book will pick up with Scout as an adult.

It's funny sometime how things happen in life. TKM was my mother's favorite novel. I read it as a kid because it was always in a prominent place on our bookshelf. Then I move to alaBama and both of my kids had the book for reading assignments in High School. With all of us it is/was a favorite novel. And all of us came to love it independently of the others. My son who was a poor reader and detested reading read t from cover to cover and will talk about it to this day. My daughter has read it at least 20 times. Sher has been dating a guy from the small town Monroeville, the setting of TKM. I have to wonder about the Karma there.

TKM is a classic novel. It appeals to all age groups and generations. I can't wait to read the sequel. Thank you Harper

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/bo...=49793373&_r=0

[Darrell KSR]

What's really cool about it is that Harper Lee was true to her word--she didn't write again. This book, believed to have been lost for 50 years, was her first novel, written before To Kill a Mockingbird. It featured Scout as an adult woman, rather than as a child. Her agent asked her to write a story instead featuring Scout as a child, which was "To Kill a Mockingbird."

So this acts as the parent to To Kill a Mockingbird, and yet, it is also its sequel. And kinda cool that it features Scout years later, like a sequel might do.

I am excited about it. While I always am a little concerned about a sequel, or second book/movie when the first one was a classic masterpiece, this one just pushes all the right buttons.

[KSRBEvans]

Saw the news this morning and was so excited. Can't wait to read this.

[MickintheHam]

One way or another, I'm afraid I may end up with a grandkid name Atticus.

[Darrell KSR]

Hmm.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/..._story_package

Not sure how I feel about this.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201..._story_package

[MickintheHam]

Hmm.

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/..._story_package

Not sure how I feel about this.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201..._story_package

Oh my. Had dinner last night with a fella who grew up in Monroe County. We talked for an hour about this. He still has immediate family there. One works as an officer of the Court inside the courthouse. We talked of Miss Lee, her sister, and the new and old lawyers. This thing will get interestinger and interestinger as we progress. If I was smart, I would retire, move to Monroeville and write a novel. It might be better than TKM.(not in a literary sense, but in suspense and drama.) If I were to bet, it would be this book won't be released for a long time. If it does in published soon, all Hell will break loose. 60 years of secrets will come raining down on this town.