To Kill a Mockingbird

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

This book gave me one of my favorite quotes on reading.

To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. This book has stayed extremely relevant. Its a commentary on racism, and the socioeconomic cause of it (those who are poor cannot afford lawyers to further their cause). I loved how race was examined through the eyes of a child. The over all message of it is one that we must do better. As the privileged we must do better to lift others up and knock down institutions that make things easier on us by making things harder on others.

This was a fantastic book. I read it for the We Read Drinks project that I do with Andi and Arielle (You should check out what we wrote for it here, its a bit more complete. I have a hard time writing about the same book twice).