{"id":27798,"date":"2015-05-21T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=27798"},"modified":"2017-06-29T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:41:25","slug":"review-the-mockingbird-next-door-by-marja-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2015\/05\/review-the-mockingbird-next-door-by-marja-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the_mockingbird_next_door_bestseller\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you follow the literary world at all, you\u2019ve probably heard that Harper Lee, author of\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, is releasing her second book in July. Lee\u2019s first story, published in 1960, follows Scout and her father Atticus Finch as he fights for civil rights in Maycomb, Alabama. The Pulitzer Prize winner has been read by millions of people and created quite the impact. Now fifty-five years later the author\u2019s second book,\u00a0Go Set a\u00a0Watchman<\/em>,\u00a0will be released in July.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I picked up\u00a0The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee<\/em>\u00a0by Marja Miller. Part memoir, part biography Marja had the rare opportunity to spend many months with Harper, called Nell by her friends, and Alice Lee. Alice, Harper\u2019s sister, is a lawyer who followed in her father\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n

In 2001, the Chicago Public Library chose\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>\u00a0for its One Book, One Chicago city-wide read. At that time Marja worked for the Chicago Tribune and was asked to travel south to Monroeville, Harper Lee\u2019s hometown. She hoped to at least write about, Monroeville, the small-town Maycomb was based on. She never imagined she\u2019d spend months in the company of Harper Lee and her sister, plus spend time with their close circle of friends.<\/p>\n

The Mockingbird Next Door<\/em>\u00a0is one of the best nonfiction books I\u2019ve read. Reading Ms. Mills book was like sitting with her at lunch and chatting with a friend. By the time I finished the book, I felt like I\u2019d visited Monroeville and met the Lees. If you\u2019re waiting to read\u00a0Go Set a Watchman<\/em>, this would be a great book to peruse, in the meantime.<\/p>\n

Penny McGinnis
\nTechnical Services Manager
\nClermont College Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you follow the literary world at all, you\u2019ve probably heard that Harper Lee, author of\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird, is releasing her second book in July. Lee\u2019s first story, published in 1960, follows Scout and her father Atticus Finch as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clermont-news-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}