In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Read August-September 2008
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, Shoreview branch
Essay written Friday, October 17th, 2008
My summer of non-fiction had all of its best reads clustered around a two- or three-week period around the end of August and beginning of September. In A Sunburned Country, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, and In Cold Blood were the best of the dozen or so books I read this summer. For different reasons though, so it would be impossible for me to pick one of the three that I liked most of all.
In Cold Blood was delightful. I mean, the subject matter itself was a gruesome, awful thing; but the telling of the tale by the legendary Truman Capote was riveting. Just like Endurance, this was a book written some decades ago about a historical event. Perhaps this should be a clue to me that this is my favorite sort of non-fiction book. But if that's the case I shouldn't have enjoyed In A Sunburned Country so much too.
For whatever reason, I liked this. I guess I'm pretty inarticulate when it comes to pinning down why exactly I like or don't like books. Then again, I'm not a book reviewer and never claimed to be. These essays aren't reviews so much as just a place for me to put into words whatever random thoughts and reactions I have to a book. Mission accomplished.
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