tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post3284967869169989245..comments2024-03-28T11:57:32.580-06:00Comments on Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan: Go Set a Watchman Review for Blogger TourBill Selneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-13062291062824404402015-07-26T10:17:42.119-06:002015-07-26T10:17:42.119-06:00RebeccaK: Thanks for the comment. It was uncomfort...RebeccaK: Thanks for the comment. It was uncomfortable resonating at times but I remain glad I read the book.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-5704363112935328032015-07-26T07:40:09.278-06:002015-07-26T07:40:09.278-06:00Great post, Bill. I was pretty skeptical of this b...Great post, Bill. I was pretty skeptical of this book until I started reading the posts that are part of this tour. It's always great to read something that resonates with you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.RebeccaKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14720581274534125405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-28529968862678148312015-07-25T23:50:04.930-06:002015-07-25T23:50:04.930-06:00TracyK: Thanks for the comment. I think you will f...TracyK: Thanks for the comment. I think you will find Go Set a Watchman an interesting book. As you grew up in the South I would be interested in your thoughts. Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-48245918423025414772015-07-25T23:48:14.432-06:002015-07-25T23:48:14.432-06:00Prashant: Thanks for the comment. Go Set a Watchma...Prashant: Thanks for the comment. Go Set a Watchman can be unsettling as a reader considers their own prejudices and how we live our lives.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-106023790371439752015-07-25T23:46:41.372-06:002015-07-25T23:46:41.372-06:00Moira: Thanks for the kind words. Both of Lee'...Moira: Thanks for the kind words. Both of Lee's books have connected with me personally.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-68425079633435574882015-07-25T15:36:29.983-06:002015-07-25T15:36:29.983-06:00Very nice review, Bill. Before I had seen your rev...Very nice review, Bill. Before I had seen your review and Margot's review, I had not had any plans to read Go Set a Watchman. Now I feel that it will be a worthwhile read, regardless of how I like it overall. TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-63543716310850583422015-07-25T13:10:59.147-06:002015-07-25T13:10:59.147-06:00Bill, I enjoyed your review and more so in context...Bill, I enjoyed your review and more so in context of your thoughts with regard to people's attitudes towards Canadian Indians in the 50s & 60s and your own experience as a lawyer with forty years of practice behind you. It's nice to be able to connect with a book, as you did with "Go Set A Watchman." And, "How easily do we co-exist with the watchman of our conscience?" is a question I will be asking myself when I read the book. Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-140804726262194392015-07-25T09:53:17.296-06:002015-07-25T09:53:17.296-06:00Great review Bill, your experiences really added s...Great review Bill, your experiences really added something to it. I hope you *will* do another post looking at courtrooms and lawyers in the books...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-70169355531071101112015-07-24T14:56:52.342-06:002015-07-24T14:56:52.342-06:00Margot: Thanks for your own kind words.
As I wrot...Margot: Thanks for your own kind words.<br /><br />As I wrote the review I could not remember another sequence of books where my expectations of a later book in the series had been so affected by how I saw the characters from an earlier book or books.<br /><br />The trial in the first book gave a focus in To Kill a Mockingbird. I believe it could have done the same here.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-27277179187573687492015-07-24T10:59:05.052-06:002015-07-24T10:59:05.052-06:00Thanks for the kind mention, Bill. And thanks for ...Thanks for the kind mention, Bill. And thanks for your own excellent post. I think you've hit upon something critical in this book. Just as Jean Louise has to confront her own idealistic (but inaccurate) impressions, readers must do the same. We have to see these people as, well, people, instead of mythic characters. They are human beings. It's a challenge, but Lee invites us to do no less.<br /><br />I wondered about the trial, too, actually. I would have liked to see what it would have been like to see Atticus and Henry in the courtroom this time, and Jean Louise's reaction to it. I think it would have added to the book. <br /><br />It's interesting that you see this as a less-finished book than <i>...Mockingbird</i>. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that, as I understand it, this was a first draft for Lee. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com