I Love a Southern Girl
Jean Louise Finch, will you be my friend?
I finished reading To Kill a Mockingbirdtoday. Scout Finch is one of the most endearing, likable and entertaining persons I’ve encountered in a novel. Her dry, brilliant and compassionate perspective on the tragi-comic events in Maycomb County Alabama have won my heart.
How I got through 32 years of life without reading this book is a mystery to me. I attribute it to my tendency to assume that common or popular is equivalent to shallow and meaningless. Think of Melrose Place, or Survivor, or The OC. I’ve learned from this novel that sometimes the popular is equivalent to the great. A recent poll asked librarians the question, “Which book should every adult read before they die?” Their answer was: To Kill a Mockingbird, the Bible came in second - but admittedly is much, much longer book.
If you’ve never read this book - I plead with you, find the time on your summer vacation this year.
And, if anyone meets Scout out there, could you please arrange an introduction for me?
