April 28, 1956, was the day Blue Calhoun met a sixteen-year-old girl named Luna. And for the next three decades, their love has borne consequences of the most shattering -- and ultimately, perhaps healing -- kind for everyone they know. As Blue recounts the years and their events for us --...
Arranged in chronological order, these short stories show Capote's evolution as a writer, moving from more imitative styles to his own voice. As with most collections, some of the stories are better than others. Reading the first one, "The Walls Are Cold," almost made me quit. The walls weren't the ...
Um... wow. That was all kinds of bad. Disjointed narration mixed with a non-existent plot combined with bland characters. The trifecta of a sucky ass novel. There's nothing I liked about this book. Perhaps a line or two. Half the time I wasn't even sure of what I was reading. Then I realize that t...
1.5 stars. mostly he overdoes it. i get that that's what you do if you're writing satire, but he really beats you over the head with it. too much, too much. there are some good lines, funny ways of using language (hence the .5 stars) but in general i didn't really like what i was reading. (and ...
Assurance through doubt – I found it strangely comforting to have such a difficult and universal question of “is there a God and does he care?” answered with struggle of faith in light of disease, pain and premature mortality. This may be due the start honesty brought to the answer, and the lack of ...
larry kramer sure had problems with his fellow queers! a depressing and desperately unfunny read, written by someone who needed to let the love in a little. but hey, he went on to found act-up, so maybe this was a useful exorcism of sorts.
3 1/2 stars I couldn't quite figure out what I thought of it as a whole, because there was so much about it that I loved---especially the Southern flavor, the occasional laugh-out-loud humor, and the style of writing that is so different from other authors. But the whole is definitely less satisfyi...
I've just decided to pull this back out. I bought this book after seeing a movie based on Capote's memoirs and/or short stories about his childhood...I forget the details, but it was lovely. So much of his fame dwelt on the gruesome and urbane--I think it's easy to forget that he was raised in the s...
3-/2+ Not a bad book. How can I say it… it’s very “plotty.” There’s a lot of “and then…” and “what could have prepared me for what came next?” You know within the first four pages that Kate’s father kills her mother and that Kate abandons her child as a baby. The character Kate is meant to embody re...
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