Hello all,
I have chosen the nom-de-plume, BEAU Radley after Harper Lee’s mysterious character that represents the collision of imagination and reality for Scout and Jem. Unlike countless others seeking a career in publishing, I wasn’t always a book fanatic, and To Kill A Mockingbird was truly the first book I actually enjoyed reading. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered the reason for my less-than-enthusiastic response to reading as a kid–I simply didn’t like children’s books. My coming of age years had a lot to do with To Kill A Mockingbird because it lead me to a love of reading, which brought me to where I am today: a graduated English major attempting to make a career out of reading. As Scout and Jem approached adulthood with a new recognition of the realities of the world, I entered adulthood by finding a world of imagination that lay before me in the pages of unopened books. So for this post I leave you with three classic coming of age stories and three new ones:
Is it the story you read or the age you read it that counts? Do the new ones stand up to these classics?
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
-BEAU Radley