I never thought I could be so passionate in recommending a book to people.
In a public setting.
In a forum.
You see, I used to be very selfish. If I read a good book, I don’t share it. I wanted to keep the story to myself. I should be the only one who knew the story. My thinking was: “It is a treasure of a story that no one else should discover it.”
But by adopting that logic, I became weary. The story immediately lost its magic because I did not have people to discuss or share it with.
It was then that I let go of the selfishness and embraced the idea of sharing the wonderful stories only books can provide.
Last Thursday, January 16, I stood up in a room full of more than 30 students and professed my love for a book that I first read when I was 13.
The title? To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM) written by American writer, Harper Lee.
Simply put, TKAM is a story of a girl named Scout, who grew up in the town of Maycomb, with her lawyer-father, Atticus Finch and older brother, Jem.
But this is not just any other family story.
It is a novel that brilliantly packed the issues of racism, oppression, morality, childhood and parenthood and education in a book that places a harmless mockingbird as the perfect symbolism of how the world is viewed by people from different perspectives.
Here’s what happened on Thursday at our first BOOK SHARE:
