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457 reviews for:

A Christmas Memory

Truman Capote

4.11 AVERAGE

yelizaveritas's review

4.0

Such a delightful little thing. Capote's language is beautiful. Also it made me cry in public.

elestanteliterario's review against another edition

5.0

Vale aclarar que este libro contiene en realidad tres historias (“El visitante de Acción de gracias” y “Una navidad”). En la presente reseña solo me refiero a "Un recuerdo navideño".

Puedes leer la reseña completa y ver el video en: https://www.elestanteliterario.com/resenas-de-libros/un-recuerdo-navideno-truman-capote

RESEÑA CUENTO UN RECUERDO NAVIDEÑO:

Leo Un recuerdo navideño de Truman Capote cada diciembre desde hace 4 años que conocí la historia. Desde entonces y cada año descubro nuevos aires y sensaciones que me produce esta linda historia y sus lindos personajes: Buddy, la anciana prima y la perrita Queenie.

Me encanta leer esta historia en esta época porque adquiere un carácter especial y me evoca recuerdos que valoro mucho de mi niñez, como las tardes soleadas de diciembre con mis primos, cuando mi abuela nos hacía manjares (un dulce de leche con una capa crocante y deliciosa) que disfrutábamos después de jugar.

Con una narración sencilla, en extremo evocativa y sensible, Truman Capote logra removernos recuerdos, sensaciones y sentimientos como toda gran historia. ¡Una lectura imperdible de esta época navideña!

elizabethpero's review against another edition

5.0

This was a great quick read--three festive, absolutely beautifully written short stories reminiscing about celebrating the holidays in the Depression-era South.

susan_over60's review against another edition

5.0

A lovely old story of a young lad’s best friend. An old time Christmas.

cristine's review

4.0

This was very sweet and heart warming.

12dejamoo's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I only read the Christmas stories, but I know next Thanksgiving I'll want to read the third. The two stories were just perfection. A Christmas Memory in particular is absolute gold. It is funny and touching and made me want to cry and I absolutely adored it. One Christmas is a little autobiographical piece which also kind of made me want to cry. It has a weight to it and even though it it just 20-ish pages long, it manages to paint a really vivid picture of the world of this little boy. Really these stories were just wonderful.

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