Feature and Follow Friday / TGIF

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This weeks question:-

Q: Summer Reading. What was your favorite book that you were REQUIRED to read when you were in school?

Easy this week, my favourite book and still stays as one of my favourite reads is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.



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This weeks question:-
Christmas in July: If Santa were to come down your chimney in the middle of summer, which books would you want him to leave for you under the tree?
How long have we got !!
Well I would like the full collections from my two favourite authors - Mary E Pearce and Margaret Dickinson, good old fashioned stories.   And then onto the cheeky side of thinks would be Fifty Shades series.  And if I was also allowed to pick for my hubbie it would have to be all the Sherlock Holmes books, but I don't think Santa's sack will be big enough!!