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Aw, that is so sad, Catalyst. You know, lots and lots of people here don't read books. Haven't you noticed? The most lively discussions are about movies, not books. Don't worry about that. Plus, you have a lovely accent. If I could pick an accent to have, it would be Scottish. Can you say...

Don't be smug. You don't always have to be so meta. Anyway. I started a blog. Pour quoi? Because IIIIII have something IMPORTANT to SAY. What can it be? Something very wise and well thought out, perhaps. Or maybe something whimsical and assholian. Who can say?

Yes, good. I want to know how to make that little thingy look so realistic using only yarn.

Good for you, abc. Glad to hear it. But you could probably do an interesting blog on the realities and worries of homeschooling or knitting pornographic toys. Something like that.

IMO, 'dear diary' blogs are pointless and uninteresting. You have to have a real subject, or else it's just babble. Like: This blog is about what I do every day to reduce carbon emissions and the progress I'm making. This blog is about how I am growing grapes and making wine...

DiCaprio and Winslet have terrible chemistry, but that could be a good thing in this case. The trick will be in retaining all those emblematic characters without the whole thing looking ridiculous. I suspect the production will come off more like The Ice Storm than anything else, which is just...

Did you know that the character Dill is based on Truman Capote, who Lee played with as a child? Another question: what do you make of the conversation in which Jem and Scout argue about whether they could be 'part Negro"?

I think Atticus is an excellent parent by 1950s standards. I also think that by today's standards he would be faulted for letting his kids near Boo Radley, among other things. Also for letting them wander around alone at night when he has had threats against himself. But times change. Even...

All good points, MC, particularly about how we cannot know Boo's intentions or inner thoughts. In fact, that's the whole quandary of Boo. He is a tabula rasa for the reader, a character into which we project assumptions that really have no basis in fact. After all, we never do learn his point of...

Oh, I just remembered this For fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, something from the past: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/showpost.php?p=54830&postcount=106

The truth about Boo The truth about Boo is unknown. However, there is no point at which anyone, even Atticus, says that the scissors story is untrue. In fact, at the end of Chapter 5, when the kids are really pushing to get Boo to come out and they're re-enacting the stabbing scene all the...

MC, so many thoughts worth exploring here. I think your mind is so open to all the possible worlds of Boo that it will be fun to discuss. I want to get back to this, but alas, it's too late tonight.

C'mon SFG, don't bail on this great thread. Let's talk about Boo.

Wow, my eyes are tired. I just read that as The End of Fish. I thought it would be about overfishing the North Atlantic. Now I have a whole book in my head that doesn't exist.

I like the way that you go straight from 'hired hand' to 'mammy', ignoring the more common contemporaneous terms 'housekeeper' 'maid' and 'cook' to describe Cal. I think the Finches would have referred to her as their housekeeper, if forced to describe her relationship to the family. I think she...

I actually don't think there's anything surprising about Cal's authority at all. She is a dearly loved member of the family, which underlies the children's view of race and color. Cal is one of the characters in the book who refuses to cross boundaries because she's a traditionalist.

Let's talk about Boo Boo Radley is an antisocial weirdo who stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. He secretly watches Jem and Scout from behind his curtains. Is Atticus, by today's standards, a responsible parent, letting Scout hold hands with this man and sit alone with him on the...

Yes, sirmyk, language is so fluid once you free your mind of the burden of meaning. I want some of the pestilence also to clean it of the jobs of nuts that pesticulate the earth in limitless boundaries. And a persistent vodka of clarity that would induce the mightiest fountain of moral hygiene.

Hi there SFG. It's really nice to see someone try to discuss a book in more detail for a change. However, To Kill a Mockingbird is written in retrospect from an adult's point of view, and the narrator is a woman (then girl). The language is that of an adult, not a child. I also would...

to hear my own silly words and thoughts echoed back over time Well, what? I'm a writer . . .\\BTW, anyone who really has happiness as a goal . . . think about it. Some of the best parts of life are not the 'happiest'.