[Magdalen] Go Set a Watchman

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 9/10/15 8:02 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> This may already have been discussed here, but I read this last night and found it pretty powerful, especially the last part where Jean Louise comes to terms with who Atticus is.
> A group at the church where I'm supplying has invited me to a potluck supper/discussion of this and "Mockingbird" on Saturday evening. Thought I'd better read the book! Now I've decided it will be worth the 45-minute drive to attend the discussion.
> What did others think of the book?
>

I think it's as powerful in its own way as "Mockingbird".  It's been 
years since I read "Mockingbird", and now want to reread it.

I think the fuss about her sister, as lawyer, being especially insistent 
about not publishing it, then Harper Lee publishing it after the sister 
was dead, was the _sister's_ insistence, and Lee's giving in to her. 
The book told a lot of dumb stuff about what the character did when she 
was young, and I suspect that it was a little too autobiographical for 
the sister's comfort (some of what Scout did might have been copied a 
little too exactly from the sister?), and also that there might have 
been people still living who might have remembered some of the 
incidents, and clicked "OH!  THAT's what happened then, and what's more, 
that's who did it!"  And that Lee wasn't as embarrassed about some of 
the truth coming out as her sister was.




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Sibyl Smirl
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