This week it’s about
controversial authors and their books. Today, the controversy is about the release of a book. Warning, mild spoilers ahead.
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee is sprinkled with similes like confetti after a parade. Sentences
like:
“His wit was hatpin sharp.”
Jean Louise—Scout—has returned home. A tomboy who eschewed
her femininity to climb trees, wonders at the differences between her home town
and the life she has in New York City. Her visit brings back memories...and a
revelation.
Go Set a Watchman was a hard book to review. Humorous, well
written, it breathes with life. The storyline left me soaring and dropped me
just as fast with the strangeness of it. It easily was a five-star review until
the story ended so abruptly without much of a resolution. Passions grew, boiled
over, and I wondered at the outcome. Then, it simply stopped and was over, as if
a hole had opened and the story fell into its depths. It really made no sense
that Scout was so totally oblivious of her home town.
Four stars for making me LOL, excellent writing, and a great
story...until the last ten pages. Truly Cee Are A Pee after that.
Controversies erupted when news of Harper Lee’s
new book was reported. What new book? She always told people she never wanted to
publish again after To Kill a Mockingbird. So why now?
According to the news, her sister was lawyer and the
Others said, wait a second. Harper Lee IS aware and very
happy with the results of her new book. A friend of hers is adamant that Lee
knows about the publication of Watchman.
Should I read a book that may not be properly released?
Since I don’t know the truth, I erred on the side of Want To Read It.
Would you?
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Huntress aka CD Coffelt, author of The Magic Withheld series
