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Reading a Classic: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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I've realized for me, reading classics pretty much came to a halt after college. So many new titles to read, I just didn't have time for "the old stuff". Twenty-four years later, I still don't read classics. Shame on me. While high school was full of the usual suspects: The Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn, Pride & Prejudice, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451; college added a few: Frankenstein, Beloved...it seemed to be more of a movement away from older classics and a move towards new writers and what at the time weren't classics, but now after 20 odd years, are classics. I just didn't get to read everything I should have, and would have liked to read.  I hope to change that going forward, and make more of an effort to look back at what I've missed and add a classic into my reading choices every once in awhile. In Cold Blood  is in this month's read simply because I had to read a novel that was written the year I was born for a book group.  It was a toss u...

Book Giveaway: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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It never gets old:  the surprise I feel when books  I've been completely unaware of all my adult reading life pop up on my radar. This is one of those books.  And lucky for you, my blog fans, you get a chance to win a copy from Penguin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this classic.   Here's what Penguin is saying about this newly released paperback edition: A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film and an upcoming TV series starring Natalie Dormer PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Joan Lindsay Foreword by Maile Meloy “A sinister tale...laced with touches of other-worldliness”  — The Guardian “Deliciously horrific.”  — The Observer “The fact that most people believed that this palpable fiction was a record of a real event is not merely a tribute to the writer...but a testimony to the atavistic power of its theme.”  — The Spectator “Beautifully haunting.”  — The Sun Herald ...