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A good read especially having visited London for the first time. I get the gist of this novel. Thoughtful. Disappointments. Expectations. All shared in characters' day to day existence. Having recently spending time in London for the first time, I realized the setting that the story line is played is spot on. Helps me reference the experiences the characters encounter and the locations. The Names of the area, the language of what's spoken, helps me understand the story much better with appreciation. Totally relatable at times with love gain, lost, and all in between. The human spirit is always at constant reflect.  Now, if only the writer would have expanded more with the characters in their lives and what could have been reading. Just my thought.  Again, a good read on creating a climate of change in human behavior, politics, and relationships. 

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee My rating: 4 of 5 stars "Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends." Harper Lee , author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird , writes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Go Set a Watchmen perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past - a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience. I picked up this book to delve in the 1950s period and realize how telling in 2020, that much has not really changed in social and political climates. To me, it only surfaced with the "elephant in the room (country)" divide. The quote above taken from the novel seemed to encapsulate the struggle of the protagonist that she must deal with the reality of being away from home to be more "enlighten" with the rest of the country, only to re...