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ChaoticMissAdventures
Summer Crossing: A Novel | Truman Capote
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"Please, dear, I'm not angry, really I'm not, but you must tell me: what have you done?"

I really enjoyed this distinctly Capote in the writing the story and vibe remind me of Gatsby. The hot NY summer, young people mixing in and out of their socioeconomic classes and getting themselves into trouble, this is a perfect hot day read.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
Summer Crossing: A Novel | Truman Capote
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For minutes, like a circulating presence, the sour sweet sweat smell of him stayed in the air, but a trifling breeze passed through the room, taking him with it: so she opened her eyes, lonely.

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LitsyEvents
First and Last | Truman Capote
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Repost for @BookNAround

It‘s that time of year again! Time for the annual #lastfirst giveaway.

What will be the last book you read in 2023 and the first of 2024? This can be the same book or two different books.

Tag me @BookNAround in your post answering this any time between now and January 5, use the hashtag #lastfirst, and you‘ll be entered for a chance to win a book off your wishlist.

Liz_M @Daisey @TheBookHippie Hello friends! You are scheduled to manage the LitsyEvents account in April. Please jump in and help Leila out with the end-of-month busyness if you can. Thanks! 8mo
TheBookHippie @Liz_M got it! Next Wednesday I‘ll be off all day otherwise I‘m good. 8mo
Liz_M @TheBookHippie thank you! 😊 8mo
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tpixie
Answered Prayers | Truman Capote
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I saw this great cover of Truman Capote‘s book at Barnes and Noble this last weekend. @Zoes_Human since you just posted about Breakfast at Tiffany‘s

vivastory I 💙 this cover! 2y
tpixie @vivastory yes!!! It jumped out at me at Barnes and Noble! 2y
Zoes_Human That is a very appealing cover! 2y
tpixie @Zoes_Human 💗💗💗 2y
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Zelda_Starr_Foxx
Pickpick

In true Southern Gothic form, a reader's sense of foreboding is revealed via descriptive verse of scenery and weather. The isolation of the marginalized members of society along and their secrets leave one feeling unsettled. If kumbaya happy endings are what one is looking for then this isn't that book.

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Jari-chan
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Happily, I don't need a lot of pages to realise if I like a book or not. I need more pages to decide id I shall DNF or not. This one didn't make it. Even though it's Capote. But I really don't know what to do with this book. It's so... meh... And, sorry, I don't like how the African Americans are portrayed. Apparently, Capote does criticise slavery, but in this translation it doesn't show. At all. Maybe I'll try the original at some point.

TheAromaofBooks Sometimes a book just isn't a match!! 3y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks That's just how it is... 3y
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Andrew65
Truman Capote: Conversations | Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge
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sisilia Love this quote 3y
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Litsi
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Mehso-so

Capote‘s penchant for imagery runs a muck: “a night bird whistled in the fig leaves, a whippoorwill, & fireflies sprinkled the blue flooded air, rode the dark like ship lights.” If you like to read the 1st try of great authors &/or want to know what the Southern Gothic genre is, pick this up. Like many 1st novels, it‘s about love & the writer figuring out himself. The depiction of black life is shocking; it felt like it‘s set in 1848, not 1948.