Reading and Discussing In Cold Blood
Deb Southerland reflects on reading and re-reading Truman Capote’s classic true crime book – In Cold Blood.
I read Capote’s book in the late 1960s, the grisly story from the Beacon still fresh in my head. I would not have picked up In Cold Blood again, had it not been for My Wife’s Book Club, a reading group I recently rejoined having found myself with a little more time on my hands. The club, so called because Thad Hartman, when asked the name of the book club, said, “I dunno. My wife’s book club.”
Thad, Technical Services Supervisor at TSCPL, was picking up the Book Group in a Bag kit for his wife, Christi, the catalyst for our reading group. Each bag contains 10 books of the same title and a reading guide, and to facilitate groups such as ours, checks out for six weeks. In Cold Blood is one of the “Bag” titles and it was for that reason I once again journeyed to Holcomb, Kansas via Capote’s narrative non-fiction.
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