Book Meme 11 and 12

[dizzojay]

11. Secondhand bookshop gem.

Discovered on a trip to Hay-on-Wye in about 2000, 'The Rabbit and the Hare' by Barbara Purchase; a little compendium of folklore, mythology and poetry about rabbits and hares.
It's a gorgeous book and was the main inspiration for the moongazing hare pictures which became such a large part of dapplegrey art a few years later.


12. I pretended to have read it.

To Kill a Mockingbird.

This was the curriculum book when I was doing my final exams at school, and I hated it from the get-go, just couldn't get into it!  So I skimmed what bits I could, and hoped that it was enough to blag my way through the English Lit exam.  I passed with a low grade, and was undoubtedly  saved by the Shakespeare element of the paper!

Comments

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many times I've started with "to kill a Mockingbird" ...I can't get into the book but I loved the movie with Gregory Peck!.
So the book is still waiting... and waiting... to be dusted off now and then...

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Yes, I haven't tried to read it since I left school.
Maybe one day!?

[katleept.livejournal.com]

LOL I never could get into Mockingbird either -- and I'm related to the author!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!
That's definitely one of those family things to be proud of.
The fact that I didn't enjoy it doesnt mean it's not an awesome book!

[katleept.livejournal.com]

I know. :) I've never been into it myself like I said, but it doesn't mean I'm not glad and proud to be related to her. Sadly I never saw her again after my Grandfather's funeral. Getting published was actually about the worst thing she could've done for herself. She hated all the attention and became a recluse.