Comments on: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

By: Lolo

Lolo — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:21:15 +0000

Hi Ladies,

I've stumbled upon this blog while searching online for Portuguese Fiction. I am Portuguese Canadian and inherited my love for reading from my wonderful mom. It is extremely difficult for me to find popular fiction books which have been translated into Portuguese. I currently order books from Wook.pt and it's great but a little pricey since I have to Internationally ship them. I buy these books for my mom, it makes her so so happy to read something in her native language.

Do any of you know of any online sites where I can order Portuguese Fiction books or buy any gently used novels? Here in Toronto, the prices are very high and the selection is quite poor.

Any help or advice would be so very much appreciated.

Thank you,
Lolo

By: Gisele Goldstein

Gisele Goldstein — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:38 +0000

Hello Raquel,

Thanks for your visit, sorry it took me forever to replay, as I was saying to Joyce, my time management is absolutely ridiculous when I am in Brazil. I really admire you being able to keep a blog in addition to everything else you have to do over there

As for the book, I actually would love to read it again, this time in Portuguese. I would love to see how the translator deals with the cultural differences between Brazil and the US at the time. But with so many books to read, it is hard to find time to do it over.

By: Gisele Goldstein

Gisele Goldstein — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:19:28 +0000

Dear Joyce, thanks for your very thoughtful comment. I am sorry it took me forever to write back. I was in Brazil for over six weeks and times seems to pass in a different way there. You are right, the really amazing thing about the book is that she managed to convince us that the child telling the story was really a child, I think. I have yet to see the movie. I tried netflix, but they only accept explorer browser, which I don't have in my computer.

I have a paperback version, which I suspect will be with me for a long, long time!

By: Raquel

Raquel — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:27:05 +0000

Gisele,
I confess that I'll read "To Kill a Mockingbird" in Portuguese!
It is a pleasure know you and Laura and the Girlebooks site.

By: Laura McDonald

Laura McDonald — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:10:16 +0000

I just noticed the Gregory Peck movie is available on Netflix watch instantly.

Sadly, I couldn't find an ebook version of To Kill a Mockingbird anywhere. If anyone has found one, please let us know!

By: Joyce McDonald

Joyce McDonald — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:57:12 +0000

I was so happy to see a review of this book show up on GirlEBooks. "To Kill a Mockingbird," may possibly be the best book written by an American author. This intensely readable book is a wonder because it comments so vividly on many aspects of the human experience--childhood, parenthood, law, politics, freedom, equality and social relations. The story is told through the eyes of a child, and the miracle of Ms. Lee's storytelling is that the child does not realize the nuances behind her story, but the adult, reading the child's story, can see the whole picture. The black and white movie is very faithful to the book and is just as good. One expects an amazing performance from Gregory Peck, but the children, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna, come very close to upstaging him. Robert Duval makes his cinematic debut in this movie. As Boo Radley, he speaks not a single line, but it was obvious back in the early '60's that he would be a star. No one who is a GirlEBooks member should miss this book or this movie. I have a beautiful hardcover edition of this book, but my original paperback, tattered and falling apart after forty odd years, is still in my desk, preserved in a plastic bag.