Comments on: A 50th Anniversary Round-Up

By: Young Bill Young

Young Bill Young — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:02:47 +0000

Amen, Kitty! I’m all for the rebels, but we need the quiet heroes to lead the way as well.

Amen, Reggie! I’m going to do a post on Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games very soon!

By: Kitty

Kitty — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:04:40 +0000

At work Bill has got us talking about our recollections of To Kill a Mockingbird. What disturbs Malcolm Gladwell about the book is why I think we’re still reading it and celebrating it fifty years later. It’s all about the changing of people’s “hearts and minds”. Atticus Finch wasn’t a civil rights leader, he was a man going about his business and doing the “right thing” when he needed to. This is the quiet change that moves us to keep reading Harper Lee’s words, to make the right choices and to applaud the people who show us the way.

By: Reggie Jet

Reggie Jet — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:58:10 +0000

I can’t remember where I read it while surfing the web last weekend, but one article referred to the book as “juvenile” literature. I take issue with this. Obviously, the narrator is a young girl, so it appeals to young readers. But I don’t think of it as a young adult novel, and the success of the book proves it’s much more than that. We could say the same thing about Suzanne Collins’ wonderful Hunger Games novels: they’re marketed as a juvenile literature but people of all ages are reading them and loving them!