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Post by heregoes on Feb 4, 2015 10:19:33 GMT -6
When an author’s debut novel wins the Pulitzer prize and goes on to sell 40 million copies, perennially topping lists of the world’s best-loved books, it’s understandable that they might be apprehensive about the reception of a second. Harper Lee, who sent the literary universe into a spin on Tuesday after she announced she would be releasing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird this summer – 55 years after her debut – appears to have no such fears. “It’s a pretty decent effort,” she said of Go Set a Watchman. here
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Post by Shenanigan on Feb 4, 2015 11:01:33 GMT -6
That's one I'll definitely read. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite books.
"A pretty decent effort", is a strange way to describe your own book.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 11:30:29 GMT -6
I can't wait to see how Scout turned out.
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Post by lestercat on Feb 4, 2015 14:35:01 GMT -6
There's more than a little skepticism goin' 'round about this "release". The real story behind the publishing may be more interesting than the book..... "Readers and writers the world over are abuzz with the news that Harper Lee is releasing a novel.
Doing the very thing she swore to the Barefooted Jesus she would never do.
At age 88, and even according to Brian Williams of NBC in “fragile health.”
It has been a well-known fact that Harper Lee has been in poor health since suffering a bad stroke. Those who know her best say that Harper Lee is deaf, blind and confined to a wheelchair.
One gushing commentator on the Huffington Post said that they never ever expected Harper Lee to publish another book.
With good reason."HERE
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 6:19:13 GMT -6
It's fantastic if true, but I'll wait to see the book actually in the bookstore before I allow myself to get excited. I just finished reading a recently released new book written by a journalist who befriended Harper Lee and her sister during the past decade, and Harper Lee was quite adamant in this book that she was never publishing another novel. Unfortunately I don't believe that at her age and stage of health she's written much of anything, and I don't want to get my hopes up.
The book is called "The Mockingbird Next Door" by Maria Mills, and was published in summer 2014.
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Post by griobhtha on Feb 6, 2015 9:43:37 GMT -6
I'd buy it! maybe she wrote it a long time ago but didn't want to publish, as writers don't usually just stop writing, even if they don't release for publication.
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Post by Shenanigan on Feb 6, 2015 9:51:23 GMT -6
maybe she wrote it a long time ago but didn't want to publish That's what I was thinking. Maybe it will be released after her death.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 16:42:05 GMT -6
That's one I'll definitely read. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. "A pretty decent effort", is a strange way to describe your own book. Modesty, I love it, and I can't wait to read it! I wondered all my adult life why she didn't write another. I think she didn't want to become rich and famous with all its pretentious trappings. Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 16:45:32 GMT -6
I'd buy it! maybe she wrote it a long time ago but didn't want to publish, as writers don't usually just stop writing, even if they don't release for publication. When they mentioned it on ABC News, they said she did write it shortly after Mockingbird. They didn't speculate as to why, nor did she, apparently. Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 14:04:04 GMT -6
I can't wait to see how Scout turned out. She would be older than I am, and I'm drawing my Social Security! Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 10:47:41 GMT -6
I'd buy it! maybe she wrote it a long time ago but didn't want to publish, as writers don't usually just stop writing, even if they don't release for publication. so very true.I had a good friend by the name of William Johnstone who wrote WESTERNS, adventure/mystery and horror stories. He passed away several years ago. He had been living with one of his nieces who was helping to care for him and manage his books writing. She has taken many of the drafts he had and fine tuned them and he is still being published today. Many of these drafts were basically outlines of a story and then he would go back and flesh them out.
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Post by griobhtha on Feb 20, 2015 11:28:35 GMT -6
I'd buy it! maybe she wrote it a long time ago but didn't want to publish, as writers don't usually just stop writing, even if they don't release for publication. so very true.I had a good friend by the name of William Johnstone who wrote WESTERNS, adventure/mystery and horror stories. He passed away several years ago. He had been living with one of his nieces who was helping to care for him and manage his books writing. She has taken many of the drafts he had and fine tuned them and he is still being published today. Many of these drafts were basically outlines of a story and then he would go back and flesh them out. A new finished Dr Seuss book was found by his widow and will be published under " What Pet should I Get?" Stephen King has 3-4 books going at any given time and it took him 20 years to finish his Dark Tower series. Just goes to show that writers don't all ways publish everything they wrote, as soon as finished.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 13:16:40 GMT -6
Bill (William Johnstone) usually had at least one and sometimes two books going in each of his series and he had about 6 different series going at one time. H e could sit at his word processor and flip from one series to another without missing a beat. To say the least, he was an unusual person. I knew him from shortly after he began his writing career until his death.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2015 9:40:33 GMT -6
All it is, is the first draft of Mockingbird that was rejected. She's said for decades that she never wrote another word after Mockingbird was published, and this is proving her right. Someone, somewhere, sees a way to cash in on an old lady's legacy.
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