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2010.09.19Finished "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Finished reading Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Perhaps I should say, I FINALLY finished it — it was assigned to us to read in school, but I didn't bother reading it. Instead I learned about it from the answers the other kids gave to the quizzes in class.

When I started the book (again, I guess) in late July, I’d take it with me to the pool, stand in the cool water at one of the sides, and read it while the sun bathed my face and arms and the water bathed much of everything else. It was a lovely way to spend an hour or so of many summer evenings. As the weather has cooled, the balcony has replaced the pool as the favored reading place.

I still get a peculiar sense of accomplishment when I finish a book. Perhaps it goes back to the library’s summer reading club when I was a child. I read insatiably then, and have been getting back into it with the aid of the Kindle and much of my spare time to myself. But as an adult I’ve started far more books than I’ve finished — a fair few rest on my shelf with bookmarks protruding lake gravestones.

Links to Amazon.com:
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
The Kindle (latest generation)


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