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A Christmas Memory Review
User Submitted A Christmas Memory ReviewsDecember 24, 2008 Read Aloud Story A Christmas Memory is a wonderful story to read out loud at Christmas. It is beautifully written and illustrated and invokes all your senses. You will laugh at loud and you will cry a little because this is a story written from the heart for the heart. February 6, 2008 Enchanting This was my first taste of Truman Capote away from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I have to admit that I was blown away by these stories. Rarely does a story pull at my heart strings anymore, but these stories practically left me in tears. Incredibly moving. January 18, 2008 A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote We shared this book at our Christmas book club and were touched by Capote's writing. January 2, 2008 Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory Beautifully bound and covered. Wonderfully written; an understatement. Got it as a present for my son's English teacher. Perfect. November 25, 2007 Sweet and Sad and Superb! There is a sadness that colors all of Capote's writing. And there's also a sweetness and innocence. Capote set high standards for himself and it shows in his virtually flawless writing. "A Christmas Memory" is a classic holiday story written in the distinctive Capote style. And like all of his writing it is sweet and sad and superb! Also recommended: Christmas Gifts, Christmas Voices--an excellent Capote-like tale of enduring and prevailing. April 29, 2007 Haruki Murakami's favorite book I read "Children on their Birthdays" twenty years ago. I found so many peculiar characters in the story, but they were all innocent. Also I felt a small dusty town in the south. Peculiar, innocent, and dusty−they still impress on me. Three stories of literary calendar−two Christmas stories and one Thanksgiving in this book also take on peculiarity and innocence. Old cousins, dogs, and bullies they are all innocent. And so was Capote. However, I never found "dusty", but "breezy" in these stories. Capote is one of Haruki Murakami's favorite authors, and he translated some Capote's stories into Japanese. He translated them so good that we sometimes notice his original stories and his translation indistinguishable from one another. January 9, 2007 Terrific story I ordered this book after first reading the story in a collection of Capote stories from the library. I knew I wanted to own it and share it. I ordered one for myself and one for a friend who loves Christmas so she could enjoy it and share it with her friends and family. I haven't listened to the CD that comes with it, but that was a nice surprise. The only thing I didn't like about the book are the illustrations. After having read more about Capote and seeing photos of him and his aunt, the pictures just didn't seem to match. They seemed too charming to me, not conveying the reality. For someone without a preconcieved idea of what the characters should look like it won't matter and this book is actually geared towards children, whereas the original story was not. I enjoyed my initial reading the most being able to create the scenes in my mind with his beautiful descriptions and my own experience with elderly relatives. I plan to search for version with no illustrations. January 1, 2007 Classic!!! Wonderful! A Christmas Memory is short but it is so rich that you will not end feeling deprived. The writing is so beautiful. I wanted to just crawl into that story and be there with them. We had this for a book group and it received a unanimous thumbs up. Only one other book has done that. December 10, 2006 A simply love story for new generations. It's a shame Janet Schulman's 10 Trick-or-Treaters arrived too late for more timely October Halloween mention: all we can say is, it's sure to maintain interest over the next year and beyond, offering a blend of zany, bright drawings by Linda Davick paired with a Halloween-theme counting book based on the adventures of ten little trick-or-treaters. Truman Capote's classic A CHRISTMAS MEMORY receives Beth Peck's warm holiday drawings, a cd narrated by Celeste Holm and returns the 50th anniversary of a classic holiday story to print. A Christmas ritual of baking fruitcakes symbolizes the story of Buddy and his eccentric, elderly cousin. It first appeared in 1956 as a memoir of Capote's childhood but makes a simply love story for new generations. August 4, 2006 A masterpiece I refer to the short story "A Christmas Memory". Simply put: one of the most moving, well written and memorable short stories ever written in the English language For more A Christmas Memory reviews click here.
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