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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.

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

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.

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.

#LetterC #Movie2BookRecs #Capote

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.

I am using the tagged book for May's prompt for my #ReadingwithMaja challenge.

@maich

Good. Even though I am not usually a fan of short stories (as I it feels like to me that as soon as the story is getting going it ends) these stories were exciting and informative. Fiction and Non fiction is interspersed together which makes it more interesting.