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    <body><![CDATA[I am always looking for books to read in the upcoming Christmas season.  I saw this book in a catalog, and thought I would read it first from the library.  I'm glad I saved my money and did not buy it.  <br/><br/>While beautifully written it is a terribly sad and tragic book, not one that I would ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76302017">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can remember first hearing this story read to me when I was in 5th grade.  The reader broke down crying, which even at a young age, struck me how emotionally powerful this story remains.  It's my favorite Christmas tradition - every Christmas Eve, when I finally retire, I take my worn copy of Capo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10029382">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ I first heard A Christmas Memory on the radio sometime in the 1970's, read by Truman Capote. I was caught and held at once by the eerie quality of his voice, and as I listened to his words, it seemed to me that his voice was the only possible medium through which this southern-gothic Christmas tale...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39561768">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice short read over the Christmas season.  A great part comes toward the end when the main character is flying kites with his elderly friend.  The friend says, &quot;My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought?  I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10209971">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sensitive and intricate rendering of a life memory--a story Capote has carried with him throughout his whole life. A memoir, the book recounts Capote's memories of one special holiday Christmas, spent with his elderly cousin whom he lived with &quot;as long as I can remember.&quot; The you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80712533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. A little slice of Truman Capote's past served up warm and delicious, just in time for the holidays.<br/><br/>This is the story of Capote's beloved cousin Sook, and the years that he (Buddy in the story) spent living with her as a young boy....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62404530">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this short story every year before Christmas, and every year, without fail, I cry. It's the story of a young boy and his aged relative and their annual adventure into the making of fruitcakes. For whom? For &quot;people who've struck our fancy.&quot;<br/><br/>But it's more than a story abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10342655">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite Holiday books.  There was a TV version of it done in 1966 with Geraldine Paige which was excellent. A newer version was done in 1997 with Patty Duke which doesn't even compare. If you ever get a chance to see the first version , it is excellent.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: &quot;A Christmas Memory, &quot; &quot;One Christmas, &quot; and &quot;A Thanksgiving Memory.&quot; All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.]]>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short three-story collection was a surprise -- in a good way. I was expecting that it would be somewhat sentimental (and I usually view that kind of designation pejoratively as I'm not necessarily a huge fan of what I categorize as &quot;domestic&quot; fiction), but I was surprised at how warm,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71956330">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What's so beautiful about this little book is its radiant nostalgia. Most well-read people know what Truman Capote was like as an adult. Jaded, cynical, sarcastic, self-serving... Here we meet lonely little boy that was in him all along.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: &quot;A Christmas Memory, &quot; &quot;One Christmas, &quot; and &quot;A Thanksgiving Memory.&quot; All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.]]>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so happy to read this as one of my holiday reads. I love Truman Capote's writing style. It was a great read because it was told through a child's eyes which is just what you want to be looking through when it is the holiday season.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: &quot;A Christmas Memory, &quot; &quot;One Christmas, &quot; and &quot;A Thanksgiving Memory.&quot; All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfect little story about a Christmas with Capote, the child, and his not quite right cousin &quot;Sook.&quot;  They make fruicakes, drink whisky, and exchange gifts in rural, Depression-era Alabama.  Bring a kleenex.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This tears me up every time- I read it first in 9th grade but every now and then I read it again. It's so sad...when they're making the cakes...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>A Christmas Memory</em> is the classic memoir of Truman Capote's childhood in rural Alabama. Until he was ten years old, Capote lived with distant relatives. This book is an autobiographical story of those years and his frank and fond memories of one of his cousins, Miss Sook Faulk. The text is illustrated with full color illustrations that add greatly to the story without distracting from Capote's poignant prose.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 11 22:15:18 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 11 22:21:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw a whole new side of Truman Capote after reading this story. Before this, like a lot of people, I only knew him from reading &quot;In Cold Blood&quot;. The soul of this story is tender and beautiful and after reading it I am in love with his writing. It came in a book of the author's short stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80730216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: &quot;A Christmas Memory, &quot; &quot;One Christmas, &quot; and &quot;A Thanksgiving Memory.&quot; All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.]]>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this 12/06, but I love to go back and revisit &quot;A Christmas Memory.&quot;  To me it's a perfect story, so beautifully written and evocative.  It's Truman Capote's reminiscence of being a seven-year-old boy in Alabama, living with a childlike elderly relative--his best friend.  There...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39217362">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book about the friendship of a young Truman Capote and his elderly cousin. The book is based on Capote's childhood in rural Alabama. Every November Capote and his cousin would spend days baking fruitcakes for friends. This sweet book takes the reader back to a simpler time in the 1930's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80271632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've seen Truman Capote's short story <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.chinaberry.com//prod.cfm/pgc/11200/sbc/11202/inv/10958">A Christmas Memory</a> in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pleasecomeflying.com/2007/01/grab-bag-friday-making-messes-with.html">Chinaberry</a> catalog for a couple of years now, but didn't actually pick it up until readers of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1038">Seven Impossible Things for Breakfast</a> mentioned it recently. I have to thank both Chinaberry and the 7-imp readers...once again, you did not s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10773606">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truman Capote's mother was his model for Holly Golightly. A fabulous, sexy but irresponsible woman, she left her little son in the care of an elderly childlike cousin named Sook, whom he immortalized in this and other stories. Sook and seven-year-old Buddy live in their own world. They fly kites, co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79903912">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read reviews of this one and had heard that it was quite touching.  How true!  This was a great short story.  I wanted to cry.  I felt the heartache of the boy (Buddy) and how he loved his friend even though she substantially older and maybe not quite right all the time.  I loved how patient a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78585342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to rereading this in December. It's a wonderful, warm tale of the predictably wacky way some Southern characters express their individuality and charm.  If you've read True Blood, you'll have trouble conceiving of Capote as a conveyer of holiday sentiment.  This is sweet without ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79348435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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