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In Cold Blood

Hello lovely readers! This week was my first week of school, so please excuse the lack of posts as of late. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote changed my life. I believe I posted on my story that if you did one thing, reader, just one thing for me (besides reading this blog) I want you to read this book. 

SUMMARY

In November of 1959, New Yorker Truman Capote read an article run by The New York Times. The story was of the Clutter family in Holcomb Kansas. "This is apparently the case of a psychopathic killer," said the Sheriff in Holcomb. Intrigued by the case, Capote impulsively traveled to Kansas with Harper Lee (yeah, that Harper Lee). Capote visited the site of the massacre. The massacre where an unknown killer or killers shot four members of the Clutter family, Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon, execution-style. In Cold Blood is the journey - Capote's whole journey. Remember the Clutter family. 

REVIEW

I simply love this book. I am a huge crime junkie and murderino. While it helps to be these things, that's not why I read this book. In Cold Blood is a fabulous piece of journalism. Told in dual perspective, this is one of my new favorite books. Please, please, please, give this heavy but truly amazing read a try. 

Age Range: 14+
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Tags: Truman Capote, true crime, raw journalism, the Clutter family, non-fiction

*TW and other topics: murder, biological material, seriously horrific actions, jail, death row, execution (hanging)*
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