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godotwillseeyounow 's review for:
A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote
I had only read Capote before in Spanish (In Cold Blood). This is the ultimate proof that one has to read the author in s/he's original language whenever possible.
I liked his style, it seems gentle, there's a softness in it, something I wouldn't have associated with him before. And I liked those sentences where he mixed nouns and verbs that one wouldn't normally string together ("...the beginnnings of dawn slapsh us like cold water..." or when talking about kites: "...twiching at the string like sky fish as the swim into the wind.")
It's a Christmas tale, of course, and it has a lot of christian imagery with references to heaven, the Lord, and the like, which I'm not particularly fond of, but suited the story non the less.
It's an easy, a little on the bittersweet end, read.
I liked his style, it seems gentle, there's a softness in it, something I wouldn't have associated with him before. And I liked those sentences where he mixed nouns and verbs that one wouldn't normally string together ("...the beginnnings of dawn slapsh us like cold water..." or when talking about kites: "...twiching at the string like sky fish as the swim into the wind.")
It's a Christmas tale, of course, and it has a lot of christian imagery with references to heaven, the Lord, and the like, which I'm not particularly fond of, but suited the story non the less.
It's an easy, a little on the bittersweet end, read.