First Impressions

To be completely honest, before I even started the book, I had my doubts. My mother had always bugged me to read it, and I thought that anything an English scholar liked must be boring. So I was very critical, and when the first paragraph started out as it did, I was relived. But after that first paragraph, you could hear my snores all the way in China. The couple pages were brutal, and I figured that was going to be the rest of the book. Yes, I was wrong, it was not as fact-filled and boring, but it was all my mother had droned about either. Given, I am only 8 chapters into the story, and it can be enticing, but I am not going to chose it over my pleasure reading. I do like Scout, our main character, and I am very curious about the Radley House. That was where my confusion came in, is the book all about the Radley house, or will it lead to the explanation of Scout's brother's accident? Or, is it just a day-to-day basis of these children's lives living in the south, dealing with school, and the neighborhood and such? The wide variety of characters, from mysterious to sassy, is an excellent touch. Even though I complain so much, I really am excited to figure out more.