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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
SFPL big book sale 2017.
initial reaction upon seeing this on the massive tables at Fort Mason Center - Capote wrote a Christmas book? this is going to be a bloodbath.
reaction when I learned it's somewhat autobiographical: yikes. YIKES.
line where the potential horror actualized on page 2: "Other people inhabit the house, relatives; and though they have power over us, and frequently make us cry, we are not, on the whole, too much aware of them. We are each other's best friend."
tabulating pennies to buy supplies to make 30 fruit cakes reminds them of how they made those pennies - 1 per every 25 dead flies last August. this is a statement on industry and wealth.
I was wondering who they would send the fruit cakes to and the answer is just as surprising as you might imagine. an eclectic group including President Roosevelt, a bus driver from Mobile, missionaries in Borneo, a charming Californian couple, and so on.
super depressing end. but really great story overall.
initial reaction upon seeing this on the massive tables at Fort Mason Center - Capote wrote a Christmas book? this is going to be a bloodbath.
reaction when I learned it's somewhat autobiographical: yikes. YIKES.
line where the potential horror actualized on page 2: "Other people inhabit the house, relatives; and though they have power over us, and frequently make us cry, we are not, on the whole, too much aware of them. We are each other's best friend."
tabulating pennies to buy supplies to make 30 fruit cakes reminds them of how they made those pennies - 1 per every 25 dead flies last August. this is a statement on industry and wealth.
I was wondering who they would send the fruit cakes to and the answer is just as surprising as you might imagine. an eclectic group including President Roosevelt, a bus driver from Mobile, missionaries in Borneo, a charming Californian couple, and so on.
super depressing end. but really great story overall.
What a sweet story. I didn't know what to expect when someone recommended I read this, but it definitely wasn't this. The pictures are absolutely gorgeous, and the story was so heartfelt and pure. I had tears running down my face and the end, and I immediately went and put it in my Amazon cart. I am looking forward to sharing it with my kids in a few years.
3.75|5
"It's fruitcake weather!"
When I started reading this, I was so sure it was nonfiction, I had to double check just to be sure Goodreads didn’t make a mistake in shelving this as fiction. Truman’s voice is so original and it rings so true, it was a delight to read it, even if the undertones were so bleak.
The friendship was truly endearing and the descriptions so beautiful, I had no problem in emerging myself completely in this small book.
I recommend it wholeheartedly for this time of year.
"It's fruitcake weather!"
When I started reading this, I was so sure it was nonfiction, I had to double check just to be sure Goodreads didn’t make a mistake in shelving this as fiction. Truman’s voice is so original and it rings so true, it was a delight to read it, even if the undertones were so bleak.
The friendship was truly endearing and the descriptions so beautiful, I had no problem in emerging myself completely in this small book.
I recommend it wholeheartedly for this time of year.
Que pequeña historia más extraña, refrescante y penosa
En un principio del relato lo sentí un poco flojo, no lo capte mucho, pero cuando Buddy comentó como su amiga solamente dejaba de lado su timidez cuando esta interactuaba con extraño me comenzó a parecer interesante el personaje de la señora de 60 y tantos años, luego el suceso de la búsqueda del árbol para navidad y todo el empeño que estos dos colocaban en la navidad le dio un aire de ternura a esta historia que me recontra encanto, pero el momento más angustiante se suscitó cuando mandaron a Buddy lejos, y su amiga comenzó a perder la 'razón' y comenzó a deteriorarse, a pesar que esto solo sucediera en las ultimas 2 páginas me provocó una angustia horrible, mi respiración subió y casi suelto lágrimas de como en ese escaso espacio el relato se transformó en algo tan triste y miserable
Me cautivo mucho la idea de que un niño de 7 años pudiese tener una amistad tan pura y sincera con una señora de 60+ años, fue por lejos lo más rescatable la historia
En un principio del relato lo sentí un poco flojo, no lo capte mucho, pero cuando Buddy comentó como su amiga solamente dejaba de lado su timidez cuando esta interactuaba con extraño me comenzó a parecer interesante el personaje de la señora de 60 y tantos años, luego el suceso de la búsqueda del árbol para navidad y todo el empeño que estos dos colocaban en la navidad le dio un aire de ternura a esta historia que me recontra encanto, pero el momento más angustiante se suscitó cuando mandaron a Buddy lejos, y su amiga comenzó a perder la 'razón' y comenzó a deteriorarse, a pesar que esto solo sucediera en las ultimas 2 páginas me provocó una angustia horrible, mi respiración subió y casi suelto lágrimas de como en ese escaso espacio el relato se transformó en algo tan triste y miserable
Me cautivo mucho la idea de que un niño de 7 años pudiese tener una amistad tan pura y sincera con una señora de 60+ años, fue por lejos lo más rescatable la historia
finally, a story that feels like phoebe bridgers if we make it through december-ep!! i’m being honest when i say i will from now on no longer go a december without reading this story. in 20 pages, it grew my heart 3 sizes then drowned it in sadness. truman is such a queen.
These are lovely little stories. Picked this up from the library as my holiday read this year.
what can be said? southern writers do it better.
The fruitcake weather is here!
And seasonal reads continue without slowing down.
This is my second Capote book and my first was one of my all-time favorites: The Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (As expected!)
Capote’s A Christmas Memory encapsulates short stories that revolve around the same or similar protagonists. I have to say I enjoyed the stories more than I expected. The eloquent author turns simple words into brilliant sentences and combined with his stupendous story-telling skills, here comes a beautiful little Christmas book. Only an exceptional writer can put these prosaic words together and create a feeling that a thousand words cannot simulate:
“I could leave the world with today in my eyes.”
Oh if this is not poetic, I do not know what is.
And I’ve never heard a sentence that could make me feel the agony of poverty before:
“There's never two of anything.”
Truman Capote is a real jem.
And seasonal reads continue without slowing down.
This is my second Capote book and my first was one of my all-time favorites: The Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (As expected!)
Capote’s A Christmas Memory encapsulates short stories that revolve around the same or similar protagonists. I have to say I enjoyed the stories more than I expected. The eloquent author turns simple words into brilliant sentences and combined with his stupendous story-telling skills, here comes a beautiful little Christmas book. Only an exceptional writer can put these prosaic words together and create a feeling that a thousand words cannot simulate:
“I could leave the world with today in my eyes.”
Oh if this is not poetic, I do not know what is.
And I’ve never heard a sentence that could make me feel the agony of poverty before:
“There's never two of anything.”
Truman Capote is a real jem.
This collection of three short stories, A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor, was so well-written and evocative. While not sequential, each features similar characters and gives a snapshot of memory from depression-era Christmas. These felt transportive, like a window to another time and place, told in a memoir-like fiction.
Short stories are not my favorite, but these were so immersive that I felt tugged in by them from the first page. I am also not usually drawn to “festive” books; Christmas storylines often feel contrived to me. But these somewhat melancholy stories worked for me as a perfect week before Christmas read.
Short stories are not my favorite, but these were so immersive that I felt tugged in by them from the first page. I am also not usually drawn to “festive” books; Christmas storylines often feel contrived to me. But these somewhat melancholy stories worked for me as a perfect week before Christmas read.