Thursday, June 14, 2012

"Pretty Little Liars" Book Club

Wanna be like Spencer Hastings? Catch up on your reading this summer!

Complete reading list:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [Spencer, Episode 101, "Pilot"; Aria, Episode 103, "To Kill a Mocking Girl"]
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [Emily & Alison, Episode 109, "The Perfect Storm"]


Season 1
In the pilot episode of "Pretty Little Liars", Spencer was reading Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. (Mr. Fitz was teaching it in English class. It's also one of my all-time favorites.)


Later, in episode 103, Aria is reading the book at lunch with her parents and talks about how she loves it and doesn't want it to end.



To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of the Finch family from Alabama, a rape trial, and standing up for what's right. Set in the Depression and dealing with themes of race, childhood, innocence, and the Civil Rights movement, it's one of the most celebrated works of literature of our time.

You can purchase the book from Amazon.com:




In episode 109, "The Perfect Storm", Emily gets a message from A to check out Great Expectations. When she does, she finds a letter she'd once written Alison and has a flashback to a time when Alison read her a passage from the book and they kissed.




The passage Ali read to Emily was: "I loved her against reason. Against promise. Against peace. Against hope, against happiness. Against all discouragement that could be." Sounds a bit like Emily's worshiping love of Alison, no? Great Expectations chronicles Pip, a poor villager, and his dreams of being wealthy.

You can purchase the book from Amazon.com:





Credit for all screencaps goes to homeofthenutty.com.