Mockingbird | 
pickThis was an amazing book. It contains so much on the power of reading and writing, letting ourselves experience emotions, our need for others and for love, and what all these things mean to being human. It's simply wonderful. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
pickI started Mockingbird because it was on my TBR from 2010, and somehow thought it was a detective novel of sorts. Wrong! It starts with a robot in a robot-dominant landscape who is unable to end his life, and brings in a human who has taught himself to read, something humans no longer do. Then he meets a woman who isn't on the mind-altering drugs.... Very readable and engaging!
pickOne of my all time favourites.
Mockingbird is a powerful story that can be read as a metaphor for human life in the context of our own day in which an interest in the arts and humanities is declining while the masses mindlessly gather around a huge television. While nowhere near as bad as the depiction of Tevis' futuristic world, contemporary society has enough elements in common with it to make us attend to certain societal trends.
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.
