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“Bye, Boo.”
Such a loss, so many, many great films.
Robert Duvall Remembered by Mary Badham, ‘Scout’ to His ‘Boo’ in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (Exclusive)
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We lost one of the best over the weekend
RIP Robert Duvall
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We asked people to share books that changed their life. Here are 12 top reads.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/12-life-changing-books-according-to-readers-ex1
"What good are wings without the courage to fly?" ~ #HarperLee #atticus #ToKillAMockingbird
L’altra sera dopo aver guardato la rappresentazione teatrale di “To kill a mockingbird” mi sono ricordata del perché quel libro resta uno dei capolavori più grandi.
#NW To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) https://trakt.tv/movies/to-kill-a-mockingbird-1962 #ToKillAMockingbird #trakt
To Kill a Mockingbird at the Glasgow Kings Theatre tonight was bloody brilliant the cast and production were amazing - I don't know if you can still get tix, but get them if you can! #kingstheatre #glasgow #tokillamockingbird
Unpublished early stories reveal Harper Lee’s literary development and personal journey
Harper Lee, best known for her landmark novel To Kill a Mockingbird, left behind a cache of unpublished stories found in her New York apartment after her death. These early writings, composed before her famous novel, provide insight into her growth as a writer and the influences behind her work. Lee... [More info]
Currently reading: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Although I’ve seen the movie more recently, I haven’t read the book since high school so I am looking forward to revisiting it from a 2025 perspective. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #currentlyreading #ReadBannedBooks
Gregory Peck: “Raoul Walsh was a very colorful, profane, outspoken character from an earlier time”
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My examination of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: https://detroitcineaste.net/2025/09/05/to-kill-a-mockingbird-novel-1960-harper-lee/
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23 books that shaped you in high school – NPR
What books shaped you in high school? Here’s what you said
August 28, 20255:00 AM ET, By Beth Novey, Meghan Collins Sullivan, and Andrew Limbong
Maansi Srivastava/NPRThis summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote back to tell us about the formative texts you were assigned as teens.
You told us about books that broadened your perspectives and stuck with you as you got older. These dog-eared volumes got packed and unpacked every time you moved homes. They led you to become English majors, librarians, writers, teachers and editors. They inspired tattoos, pet names and baby names. Many of you shouted out the English teachers who, decades ago, pressed these texts into your hands, your heads and your hearts.
We’re sharing your thoughts here. This list reflects a time when fewer female authors and writers of color were being published and assigned in high schools — and many of you expressed hope that today’s syllabuses are more varied and diverse.
So, at the start of a new school year, with gratitude to English teachers past, present and future, here’s what you told us about the books that shaped you.
Readers’ responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Two books came up far more often than any of the others:
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Reading about racism from the perspective of a child — 6-year-old narrator Scout Finch in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel — was an eye-opening experience for many who responded. Steve Kennebeck, 65, of Ranchos de Taos, N.M., was in seventh grade when his family moved from San Diego to Memphis, Tenn. “Not long after I arrived, my English teacher, sensing I was having difficulty adjusting, asked how I was doing. … I told her I didn’t like the humidity and that I didn’t understand why all the Black kids seemed so angry. She reached for the bookshelf and handed me a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird and said: ‘Read this — it will help you understand.'” Christopher Anderson, 60, of Gloucester, Mass., felt such a connection to Scout’s lawyer father that he named his first child Atticus. Nathaniel Hardman, 41, of Midvale, Utah, acknowledges: “I know some object to the ‘white savior’ narrative. That’s fine. Let that be part of the discussion.”
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1984 by George Orwell
Whitney Todaro, 44, of Louisville, Colo., remembers being so upset by the ending of 1984 that she threw the book across the room. Many of you told us that George Orwell’s dystopian novel encouraged you to think critically, question authority and be wary of state surveillance. There was a strong consensus that high schoolers should still be reading the book today. “More important than ever — but retitle it to 2025,” writes Thom Haynes, 65, of Apex, N.C. Rayson Lorrey, 73, of Rochester, Minn., says, “Teens live in a world partly Orwellian — fish need to understand all they can about water.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 23 books that shaped you in high school : NPR
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I think #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee probably affected me more deeply than any other book we ever read in school.
Could read it once or a thousand times and still be finding its lessons played out for the rest of your life.
The fate of To Kill a Mockingbird play is determined, Sandals Resorts win a major copyright decision, and Senators repropose AI transparency act.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/30/3-count-sandals-off/
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Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.
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Milestone: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
On this day, July 11, in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published—quietly, powerfully, and with the resonance of a moral bell tolling through American literary history. It was Harper Lee’s only novel for decades, but it became one of the most important works of the 20th century.
”You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch
It’s not a perfect book. No novel can bear the burden of every societal expectation. But what makes To Kill a Mockingbird remarkable is its ability to enter the classroom, the living room, the courtroom of public opinion—and stay. It brought words like empathy, injustice, prejudice, and conscience into the daily lexicon of readers young and old. Through the eyes of a child, it asked: What does it mean to do the right thing when the world around you insists you’re wrong?
It’s often said that literature is a mirror held up to society. If that’s true, then To Kill a Mockingbird is also a magnifying glass—highlighting both the ugliness and dignity that coexisted in the American South during the 1930s, and indeed, in many corners of society still today. The story of Atticus Finch, Scout, and Tom Robinson has become a lightning rod—because it demands that we confront our understanding of justice, race, and moral courage.
First-edition cover of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by the American author Harper Lee (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)Why Reread This Book?
Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird is not just an act of literary return; it’s an exercise in moral reflection. We reread to remember what it meant—and to ask what it means now.
Because empathy must be practised.
Because history continues to echo.
Because each reading reveals something new—not only about the book, but about ourselves.
Quiet Books, Quiet Change
While To Kill a Mockingbird confronted society with its courtroom drama and stark racial injustice, other books have quietly shifted the ground beneath our feet:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith: A quiet, resilient voice of a young girl navigating poverty, education, and hope in early 20th-century America.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Bold, lyrical, and rooted in personal healing, it transformed the landscape of African American women’s voices.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson: A spiritual meditation on grace, forgiveness, and human decency in a divided world.
The Chosen by Chaim Potok: A tender exploration of faith, difference, and understanding across generational lines.
Each of these works may not have incited public confrontation, but they cultivated compassion, reshaped assumptions, and invited slow, lasting change.
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Miss Maudie
My Takeaways
Literature holds the power to awaken empathy and challenge systems—not always with noise, but sometimes with quiet conviction.
Books become cultural landmarks when they ask hard questions and invite us to grow beyond our present understanding.
To Kill a Mockingbird endures because it invites a moral reckoning—not just with society, but with ourselves.
Until next time, happy reading and warmest thoughts from my corner to yours.
Rebecca
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience”
Atticus Finch
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These lines are very relevant to the times we live in now, more than ever.
It's really hard to top the message and the quality of this week's featured movie on Film Seizure. Let's spend some time with one of the greatest cinematic heroes of all time, Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Listen to the new episode at https://wp.me/p9Tw3k-1HE
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