Pre-Owned To Kill a Mockingbird

I love this book and recommend it to everyone. I bought it new from Walmart and was so nerdily exited when it came, all shiny and new!

I didn't read this book until many years after it was published - and since then, I read it at least once a year until I wear out my copies - and each year, I notice things in it that I overlooked previously. It still amazes me that such a talented author didn't write other novels. Her characters are so real, it's as if you are speaking of people you know and have personally met, and the small town they live in, when you attempt to tell this story to someone that hasn't read this book. And it is so delightfully, dryly, worded by Scout, that it is nearly impossible not to interrupt someone to tell them something funny you just read that she said in the book! As if they MUST hear some of the unbelievably astute comments of this little girl as she analyzes some of the situations, and tries to rationalize them. Really FULL of comments that keep you chuckling to yourself all the way through the book. I've never read a book that literally takes you to a town and sits you right down in it to observe the people, the buildings, and the FEELING you would have if you were actually in that place at that time!