tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post4490942366547852140..comments2024-02-29T06:34:59.406-05:00Comments on From The House of Edward: The Mockingbird At FiftyPamela Terry and Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-11113947303001242282010-07-27T22:11:16.766-04:002010-07-27T22:11:16.766-04:00thanks Pamela for a wonderful post. To Kill a Moc...thanks Pamela for a wonderful post. To Kill a Mockingbird was the best novel ever written in my opinion. Having seen the movie at 12 I read it soon after as the characters were burned into my mind and I don't think the effect has diminished in 36 years... I look forward to the song if it appears on your posts. High praise for you do be compared to Harper Lee. I think after the masterpiece it was her work was finished. She provided a message if incalculable value for generations to come and maybe that was enough for her. I think, by the posts I've read, that you have a lot to offer. Bring on the music!<br />Alicea.rogue (Alice)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04779592758048327515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-60638884931153804612010-07-11T23:52:24.333-04:002010-07-11T23:52:24.333-04:00If my memory serves me correctly, the townspeople ...If my memory serves me correctly, the townspeople in Lee Harper's home town accused her of writing about them.<br /><br />I remember reading this book and loving every word, followed by the movie with Gregory Peck. You are quite correct that we should be reading this classic again. Thanks, Pamela.Barbara Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00610140328527165017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-69171004643558474532010-07-11T15:58:53.455-04:002010-07-11T15:58:53.455-04:00Fine book, but I am way more interested in your so...Fine book, but I am way more interested in your song! Won't you tell us? Please.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-33662351460770196032010-07-11T08:18:14.641-04:002010-07-11T08:18:14.641-04:00Pamela..wonderful post. I read the book over 30 ye...Pamela..wonderful post. I read the book over 30 years ago and have two copies on our bookshelf. Happy to report that my kids have read it as well. I did not realise the history of the author and now I am curious and will add it to my summer list. Nice to know that it is close at hand.<br /><br />Loved your story about songwriting together!!<br /><br />Best wishes for a peaceful day!!<br /><br />jeanne :)Jeanne Henriqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07986759909478180763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-60776808002768197182010-07-10T18:19:16.255-04:002010-07-10T18:19:16.255-04:00No greater novel has been ever written of the huma...No greater novel has been ever written of the human spirit and the injustice of being born different.<br />Thank you to Ms. Lee for the book that touched us deep within and thank you Pamela for reminding us of that special gift...<br />SusanSusan McShannon-Monteithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525642217533620081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-71902688597735443862010-07-10T17:31:29.788-04:002010-07-10T17:31:29.788-04:00Thank you for a wonderful post. And Lorenzo, than...Thank you for a wonderful post. And Lorenzo, thank you sor your ability to bring it full circle.rottroverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12040584911302243673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-43663325871704248472010-07-10T16:12:54.421-04:002010-07-10T16:12:54.421-04:00I am ashamed to say that i have never read the boo...I am ashamed to say that i have never read the book, or written a song come to think of it, but if you say it's good then I believe you.Acornmoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14982884920388966786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-7695272453174610202010-07-10T02:20:27.846-04:002010-07-10T02:20:27.846-04:00Oh Pamela, You manage to treat any subject so elo...Oh Pamela, You manage to treat any subject so eloquently, it's always a pleasure to settle down and read your posts.<br />If I had been clever enough to write the Mockingbird, I'd be scared silly that nothing I wrote afterwards could ever match it.<br />There are several copies in this house, and I'm glad to say that it is working it's way through the family in order of descending age.<br /><br />Sharonsharon santoni at my french country homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17475608374691177747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-62930648780290051422010-07-10T01:16:18.782-04:002010-07-10T01:16:18.782-04:00You are so right, Pamela. Indeed, what a book!You are so right, Pamela. Indeed, what a book!Angie Muresanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13830360358541367259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-75676871471973852142010-07-10T00:10:57.276-04:002010-07-10T00:10:57.276-04:00If I were sent away on a spaceship forever, and al...If I were sent away on a spaceship forever, and allowed only one book to take, To Kill A Mockingbird would be it. That, or Charlotte's Web.Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281288495129054688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-13215653543094319322010-07-09T23:09:43.020-04:002010-07-09T23:09:43.020-04:00Thank you Pamela, for your wonderful post, and yes...Thank you Pamela, for your wonderful post, and yes, I must read this book again.<br /><br />Happy weekend<br />Hugs<br />CarolynDraffin Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01448539647442095635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-82483843600260944082010-07-09T19:05:28.087-04:002010-07-09T19:05:28.087-04:00It is an amazing book, Pamela. And I quite admire ...It is an amazing book, Pamela. And I quite admire the way she never felt the need to capitalise on her fame or use it as a vehicle for anything else.<br /><br />I would love to be more like the Songwriter in my approach to work, but I'm much more like you. And all too often, the muse conks me over the head at the most inconvenient of times.<br /><br />And yes, I too would love to find out more about your song, what it was about and who the singer was.LITTLE BROWN DOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09752176955139690523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-92210046994696337992010-07-09T16:43:40.179-04:002010-07-09T16:43:40.179-04:00Without knowing about the 50th anniversary, I just...Without knowing about the 50th anniversary, I just retrieved a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird from my sister's house that had belonged to my mother. I read it in the 60's or 70's and that is long ago enough for a really good re-read this summer...<br /><br />I can understand many reasons for not writing another novel...but I always yearned for more from Miss Lee.GailOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556665956317683667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-85790939375653695312010-07-09T15:56:31.057-04:002010-07-09T15:56:31.057-04:00I have read the book many years ago and I see it o...I have read the book many years ago and I see it on all the lists of the students in my family, it's such a enormous achievment and speaks volumes that she has the stamina to go through it without being privately recognized.<br />I admnire her and her strength!<br />The book is on my tbr list again!<br />Thanks for this wonderful tribut to her, the songwriter and your own capabilities as a writer!<br />Much love! <br />VictoriaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572400688345132982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-7574027855070796082010-07-09T14:39:22.779-04:002010-07-09T14:39:22.779-04:00I reread it last year and was struck again by so m...I reread it last year and was struck again by so much stuff. The main thing that stood out with this reading was the gentle Southern ways that my grandchildren will probably never have the opportunity to experience. Things like sitting on the porch swing after supper listening to grown-ups talk until they fall asleep and the way everyone really knew their neighbors.<br /><br />Did you know that you can still pick up a signed copy of the book in Monroeville where the author lives...at least you could a few years ago when my friends husband got one.steviewrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233066158555762167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-10574847914282676802010-07-09T11:43:43.467-04:002010-07-09T11:43:43.467-04:00You really "get" Harper Lee and TO KILL ...You really "get" Harper Lee and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Harper Lee shows her personal strength by not going out on the press circuit.rjerdeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453912819445395042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-14578163398011569202010-07-09T11:16:29.648-04:002010-07-09T11:16:29.648-04:00Commemorative programmes on TV here too. It's ...Commemorative programmes on TV here too. It's a book I've never read, though I have seen the film. I must put that right!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00861397533660827678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-89567067511830963562010-07-09T08:21:10.237-04:002010-07-09T08:21:10.237-04:00I read that seminal book at the age of 13...a girl...I read that seminal book at the age of 13...a girl-child growing up in an infrangible bubble of vapid materialism and luxury in the midst of the Apartheid Regime to which I remained oblivious until I reached the end of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. It was then that I looked up and realised that I had been absolutely, absurdly blind to the sheer horror of man’s inhumanity to man which raged around me in a country so breathtakingly beautiful as to defy anyone to look beyond its majesty in order to witness the diabolical undertones of this enforced separation. I learned from Atticus that “the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” I hope I have held on to, and done justice in my own way to that axiom.Tessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233122532137654099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-11905688237535605292010-07-09T07:07:52.187-04:002010-07-09T07:07:52.187-04:00Hear, hear!! I love the book too! I have never me...Hear, hear!! I love the book too! I have never met Miss Lee but know several scholars who have. I will be in her town today...and at a special dinner tonight. Who knows? Perhaps she may step out. You really must visit Monroeville in May someday! That is the time of year when the town does the play in the courthouse. (Check out my post for today and visit the links to Mockingbird!) I always enjoy reading your blog! I must come more often!FireLighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06807248509319526615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-48268718176289741622010-07-09T06:16:54.195-04:002010-07-09T06:16:54.195-04:00An incredible achievement, all the more so in a wa...An incredible achievement, all the more so in a way because she published no other. I agree absolutely with your concluding three lines.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-14203250621721954212010-07-09T06:00:33.437-04:002010-07-09T06:00:33.437-04:00What a wonderful tribute you have written, nothing...What a wonderful tribute you have written, nothing to be added or taken away.Arijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03720793296992474762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-53970044015709753592010-07-09T05:27:07.124-04:002010-07-09T05:27:07.124-04:00Oh, yes! Since al the publicity and talk around la...Oh, yes! Since al the publicity and talk around lately, I have been meaning to re-read it so thank you for the reminder!<br />Have also borrowed the dvd to watch with the older children. It made such an impression on me when I first saw it, and I remember re-reading the book for an entire summer after I saw the film. <br /><br />Wonderful stuff!<br /><br />And I love your account of the art of song-writing! Now you know you have to tell us who recorded it!! And where can we hear it? Please!!Ciara Brehonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10583812950426579762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-74830955337846670752010-07-09T03:50:13.077-04:002010-07-09T03:50:13.077-04:00Firstly, thank you for visiting me again! Secondly...Firstly, thank you for visiting me again! Secondly, I read To Kill a Mockingbird at school for my English Literature exams, it is indeed a wonderful book, and well worth rereading several times, so I must really! I like the sound of Ms.Lee, Hell no! She obviously wrote from the heart and not for fame or fortune. Brilliant. Suzie xxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17215149035079179279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-2263309756620446852010-07-09T01:51:27.307-04:002010-07-09T01:51:27.307-04:00Wow, have you wrote a song ?? Impressive !
I have ...Wow, have you wrote a song ?? Impressive !<br />I have never read the book you write about, but maybe I will. And the things you tell us (or should I say not tell us) are interesting.<br /><br />Have a really nice weekend<br /><br />xo<br />AnciAncihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12378571256861798356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-12647439925593136742010-07-08T23:35:54.984-04:002010-07-08T23:35:54.984-04:00Wise Words - You never really understand a person ...Wise Words - You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.<br />To Kill a Mockingbird<br />Atticus Finch to daughter Scout, Chapter 3.Adelle4Parishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00448051981178453612noreply@blogger.com