I’ve been following the book bans in the news 🗞️ with fury. I prefer films to reading; there is the addition of visual and auditory stimulation that holds my attention more steadily than reading; due to my ADHD I believe. This list is GOLD to seek out what others think 🤔 I have no right to read. Poppycock! Purchased “To Kill A Mockingbird “ and thought it very accurate as a daughter of the South myself. Loved the film adaptation and have no doubt it is congruent with the book. It was so very moving and well done; I cannot imagine anyone other than Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch.
I will be rewatching at will many times over! Bless you for this list of gems 💎 to forge through!
Wrote a long comment then lost it. Best book and movie ever to me. My family got the book via the Book of the Month Club, or something like that. We all read it. We went to see the movie as soon as it came out. Gregory Pieck is the best actor ever to me and Atticus is his best role. Didn't know what rape was when the book came out. Ended up working most of my professional life working with victims, changing laws to protect women and children, was an author for the first text book for professionals re: rape. Helped design the Rape Prevention Education Program for the U of California system and ran the UC San Diego program, etc. And, much more. Long before that, from 1971-1974 was an Investigator in the Women's Division/Sex Crime Section of the Detroit Police Department. Women at the DPD had their own Division, run by a woman since 1922. Many many memories and intense social work and action. Yes, one book can impact a person's life and social commitment in so very many unforseen ways. Thank you, Harper Lee, Gregory Peck and Scout.
Good reading list. Thank you.
Love it!
I’ve been following the book bans in the news 🗞️ with fury. I prefer films to reading; there is the addition of visual and auditory stimulation that holds my attention more steadily than reading; due to my ADHD I believe. This list is GOLD to seek out what others think 🤔 I have no right to read. Poppycock! Purchased “To Kill A Mockingbird “ and thought it very accurate as a daughter of the South myself. Loved the film adaptation and have no doubt it is congruent with the book. It was so very moving and well done; I cannot imagine anyone other than Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch.
I will be rewatching at will many times over! Bless you for this list of gems 💎 to forge through!
Good lord, that is ludicrous. Several of those were required reading in Georgia schools in the 60's.
Thank you so much for this list. I've posted the book list on my substack.
Wrote a long comment then lost it. Best book and movie ever to me. My family got the book via the Book of the Month Club, or something like that. We all read it. We went to see the movie as soon as it came out. Gregory Pieck is the best actor ever to me and Atticus is his best role. Didn't know what rape was when the book came out. Ended up working most of my professional life working with victims, changing laws to protect women and children, was an author for the first text book for professionals re: rape. Helped design the Rape Prevention Education Program for the U of California system and ran the UC San Diego program, etc. And, much more. Long before that, from 1971-1974 was an Investigator in the Women's Division/Sex Crime Section of the Detroit Police Department. Women at the DPD had their own Division, run by a woman since 1922. Many many memories and intense social work and action. Yes, one book can impact a person's life and social commitment in so very many unforseen ways. Thank you, Harper Lee, Gregory Peck and Scout.
Wow, I gotta get reading. That's an impressive list, and although I've read some of these, there's so many I haven't. Time to change that. Bring it!