Today, Tuesday February 3, 2015, Harper Lee announced that she will be publishing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird! This book is called Go Set a Watchman and will be released on July 14, 2015 and you bet I will be on the e-mail list and pre-order it as soon as possible. If you want to get it too I suggest you do the same because apparently only 2 million will be published! (There will be lots of exclamation marks in this post so brace yourselves!) I loved the first book and cannot wait until this one comes out!
The first thing I thought of when I first heard of this was: why now after 55 years? So I did some research on this an it turns out that Lee actually wrote this book before To Kill a Mockingbird but her editor was especially interested in her writing a novel of a flashback in Scout's perspective, so that was the birth of To Kill a Mockingbird. So why now? Lee thought she lost the original manuscript until about three months ago when her layer and friend Sonja Carter found it. Wow! What a wild story! I expect this to be a masterpiece, just like To Kill a Mockingbird and now have another reason to look forward to the summer! Who else is excited? Let me know in the comment below!
