I just cant tell how glad I am, to write this post. Why, because its been such a long time since I have read book (or rather completed one).

How Starbucks Saved My Life
Bourne Identity
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
and one more book whose name i don’t remember

Well those are some of the books, which I started off, recently but none of which I completed. Excepting Bourne Identity, everything else were really boring. The problem with Bourne Identity, was that it had so many characters, I just couldn’t keep track of them. I had started reading it, twice, but stopped midways both the time.

Well the book I finally completed was Lee Harper’s Pulitzer Winning book ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ published in the year 1960 ( which i just knew). I started reading the book only because it was only 300 pages long, and also because the book won a Pulitzer. I actually never expected to complete the book, because i once had started with ‘The Argumentative Indian’ (another award winning book) and i remember i couldn’t stand a page. I thought a similar fate awaited this book too, but surprisingly this book kept me engaged.

The story is set in the late 1930′s. It is a recollection of a particular event in the life of our protagonist when she was around seven, describing which, takes us through a gamut of other events. Narration is through the eyes of a 7 year old girl which in itself is lovely. The perspective of a seven year old, on issues, as simple as school and as complex as rape and racial discrimination, is very interesting.

Though I didn’t like the story in itself very much, but what kept me going was its narration. It is so sweet, and do has some humour ( humour only because its narrated from a young girl’s point of view ). The story basically narrates about her family, friends and her neighbourhood. It also describes in length about their ever elusive neighbour, and their failed attempts to see him. It also describes about a case her father defends for a black, he being a lawyer, and eventually loses. It also describes about her friend, with whom she and her brother, spent their summer together.

I didn’t get bored reading it, and completed it in less than three days. It wont bore you either, am sure, but why it got a Pulitzer, I still don’t know. Maybe it has something more to it, that i didn’t understand .