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    Christmas Memories Vol. 2
    Christmas Memories Vol. 2
    Christmas Memories Vol. 2
    Audiobook1 hour

    Christmas Memories Vol. 2

    Written by Kim Mitzo Thompson

    Narrated by Various Contributors

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Children and adults sing favorite carols and Christmas songs—over 70 minutes of holiday music and Christmas memories!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwin Sisters
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    ISBN9781467638517
    Christmas Memories Vol. 2
    Author

    Kim Mitzo Thompson

    Kim Mitzo Thompson has been a children’s author, record producer, and publishing executive along with her twin sister Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand for over 29 years. Known as the Twin Sisters®, the duo have written thousands of products for children including over 3,300 songs, 550 digital albums, 250 e-books, 550 teacher resources, 15 apps, hundreds of books, and more! Thousands of their physical products can be found on Amazon and are distributed by various publishers worldwide. Their digital products are available on all major music streaming sites, e-book sites, audiobook sites, and teacher downloadable resource sites. Besides being authors, the fraternal twins run two companies, Creative IP, LLC and Twin Sisters IP, LLC. Both companies are dedicated to creating and licensing exceptional products worldwide. Kim's past experience as an elementary school teacher, lecturer, and television personality brings product development and sales expertise to the organization.

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    • 4/5
      Nice Christmas music throughout. Puts you in the Christmas mood.
    • 5/5
      5***** and a &#10084This autobiographical novella is a wonderful, touching story of family love. Capote is at the peak of his writing ability here. Our hearts embrace Buddy and Sookie. The date listed is when our book club discussed it, but I've had this book for ages and I read it every December on my birthday.Update: December 2010This autobiographical story is based on Capote’s own childhood, living with relatives in Alabama. It’s a memory of the innocence of childhood and the anticipation of something special. It is also a story of love and respect, as well as of loneliness and want. One crisp November morning 7-year-old Buddy hears his cousin Sook (whom he calls Friend) declare, “It’s fruitcake weather!” With that pronouncement, the two set off on their annual campaign to bake dozens of fruitcakes for “friends.” Sook is an elderly woman with a child’s mind, and she and Buddy are constant companions (and each other’s only friend). It is during the Great Depression and times are hard. It takes them all year to save the pennies, nickels, dimes for their Fruitcake Fund, and the other relatives in their household look upon them with derision. Still, nothing can dampen their spirits as they bake and mail the fruitcakes, hunt deep into the woods for the perfect Christmas tree, make the ornaments and decorations that will make it look “good enough to eat!” Capote was a gloriously talented writer and he is at his best here. The reader feels the anticipation of a child, smells the piney woods, shivers in the crisp morning, and is comforted in the warmth of love. His writing is never so brilliant as when he is mining his childhood for stories such as this. The emotion is evident and genuine. His descriptions are gloriously vivid without overwhelming the story. The lessons learned – about kindness, tolerance, family, love and forgiveness – are gently told but ring loud and clear in the reader’s heart. I leave you with one quote from the story. Sook and Buddy are enjoying the outdoors and she has a revelation … “You know what I’ve always thought?” she asks in a tone of discovery, and not smiling at me but a point beyond. “I’ve always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don’t know it’s getting dark. And it’s been a comfort: to think of that shine taking away all the spooky feeling. But I’ll wager it never happens. I’ll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are” – her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone – “just what they’ve always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.”
    • 5/5
      Charming, beautiful, and a little bit sad. The illustrations are perfect.
    • 5/5
      This is a remarkable story. In it's few pages Truman Capote manages to paint a picture of a seven-year-old boy and his sixty-something year old friend and a Christmas that they spend together. The language in the story is lyrical and beautifully descriptive. Is this book autobiographical? The way it is written, I believe it is. The story is told from the heart and from deep in Capote's soul. Truman Capote had to have lived this in order to describe it so exquisitely. This little book was given to me as a gift, and I waited to read it during the Christmas season. The Christmas season with another Covid-19 wave turned out to be perfect timing for me. If you can get your hands on this little gem, I highly recommend that you take a few minutes to read it. Merry Christmas.
    • 5/5
      A Christmas Memory by Truman CapoteFruitcake weather and a nice warm memory of why it's made and with who.His cousin Mrs. Falk is remembered fondly. Detailed descriptions of the scenes as they are brought into the picture.I can just imagine the smells as the baking starts. He's only 7 and she's in the 60's. I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 5/5
      3 stories of life with young Truman's friend, Miss Sook. You can never doubt their abiding love for each other.
    • 4/5
      This book is bittersweet. I love that Capote highlights an unusual friendship: that between the very old and the very young. It's not a common grouping and it reminds me of the immense love and friendship shared between my grandmother and my young son. Of course the ending is sad, as it must always be in these cases, but the rest is so filled with warmth, love, and happiness. Do we dwell on the outcome, or the journey there?

      As always, Capote's prose is easy-to-read yet filled with depth and nuance. I adore it.
    • 4/5
      Celebrated American novelist Truman Capote looks back to his childhood in this lovely short memoir, recalling the Christmas customs he observed with his best friend and distant grown relative, Cousin Sook. Declaring, at the end of every November, that "it's fruitcake weather," this childlike grownup, her young boy cousin, and their dog companion Queenie set out to gather the pecans and to purchase the other necessaries for the many cakes they will make and mail...Apparently first published in 1956, this beautifully descriptive and emotionally resonant short story was made into a picture-book, with the artwork of Beth Peck, in 1989. This new edition from 2014 contains that artwork, as well as a CD with the narration of Celeste Holm. Despite being well familiar with Truman Capote's name, I had never before read any of his work, so A Christmas Memory was my introduction to his writing. I certainly was engrossed in its pages, by turns amused and moved by its narrative. It is clear that Cousin Sook, in addition to her physical ailments, has some sort of developmental disability, but to the seven-year-old Truman, who considers her his best and only friend in a family of distant (and seemingly cold) relatives, this is entirely irrelevant. I appreciated that, and I appreciated the poignant conclusion. The accompanying artwork done by Beth Peck is absolutely lovely, capturing the close emotional bond between Truman, Cousin Sook, and the lively Queenie. Recommended to fans of the author, and to anyone looking for short stories set at Christmas. Although not written for children, I do think it can be shared with them, with the proviso that parents and guardians be aware that there is loss here, especially in the conclusion.
    • 5/5
      A very poignant story of a young boy learning to love life with a mentally challenged older cousin. Quite moving.
    • 4/5
      This Christmas story is based on Capote's relationship with an aunt and recalls Christmases where they gathered nuts and scraped pennies to gift fruitcakes. It's a lovely novella which captures the spirit of giving at Christmas.
    • 5/5
      A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote is a simple story on the surface, but it is loaded with complex ideas. Truman's relationship with his beloved aunt and their days leading up to Christmas is told from Truman's memory through the eyes of his six year old self. Using flowery writing and beautiful prose, his memory comes to life.The story can stand well on it's own, but I had the added pleasure of knowing Mr. Capote through the eyes of Harper Lee, his best childhood friend, and have had the privilege to visit their home town. All of this has given me a way to connect further with the boy and his setting.
    • 4/5
      Classic telling of a Southern small town friendship; bittersweet.
    • 4/5
      read this my senior year in high school in my English class. loved the story and liked the movie
    • 5/5
      Lovely,touching,heartwarming. A quick but unforgettable read for the season.The illustrations were beautiful.I will read this every year!
    • 5/5
      Caught up in the fact that I do not like the personality of what was Truman Capote. Dying from alcoholism, with few friends because he threw them away with his cutting, acerbic, back-biting nastiness, in his insecurity, claiming he helped Harper Lee pen her award-winning novel, while in fact she helped him write his masterpiece In Cold Blood, I allowed this to cloud my opinion of his writing.Then, I read this incredible book and it confirmed what a talented, gifted writer he was.His childhood was terrible, neglected by parents, abandoned by both, his early life was filled with instability. Save for a wonderful elderly cousin in Alabama, who understood this intelligent, feminine, lonely child and who surrounded him with unconditional love and memories to last a life time, his early life was insecure and lonely.With a nasty custody battle looming over his head, he landed with distant relatives in Alabama. It is in Alabama that he met his long-time friend Harper Lee, who befriended Truman, and developed his personality into the character of Dill in her Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird.This book, however is not about Harper; it is about Christmas; it is about times that were economically difficult, and emotionally trying. Living in a house of one elderly man and three older spinsters, he sensed that it was cousin Sooke who broke through his barriers and allowed him to be temporarily free of pain.Some said she was "simple minded", "childlike", yet those were the traits that endeared Truman to her and that enabled her to love him with a pure, innocent love that endured.Scrimping together enough pennies to make 30 fruit cakes, Truman and his cousin carefully collected the items and made batches of wonderful smelling, great tasting treats to give to those they knew, and to some they hardly knew. Tasting the last bit of whiskey at the bottom of the jar, and dancing in the candle light provided laughter to a boy who barely knew how to laugh.Walking through the woods to cut down the nicest tree; slipping in the water as they trudged through the underbrush; pulling the large pine and stopping when they grew tired, were but a part of the memories that Truman held dear.Carefully fashioning hand-made kites to give to each other for Christmas presents, and then allowing their spirits to soar with the wind that held the kites aloft provided rare memories to hold in his heart.Five Stars!
    • 5/5
      A beautifully written autobiographical story of a Christmas some twenty years in the author's past, during the Depression, when he was a boy and his sixty-something older cousin, still a child in her mind and his best friend, would make some thirty fruitcakes for Christmas to deliver to everybody they knew, and some they didn't. The picture on the cover is of Capote and his cousin. I think this is the best thing I have read by Capote, certainly the most poignant.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite holiday stories, though I only discovered it a few years ago. It is beautiful and familiar and heartbreaking. This version has lovely illustrations and includes an audio CD with Celeste Holm narrating.
    • 5/5
      Truman Capote experienced an unusual childhood. He was neglected by both parents and parked with older relatives for his upbringing. One cousin (Sook) took an interest in his life and spent time with him. This short novel is a tribute to her.
    • 4/5
      A Christmas Memory is Capote’s autobiographical short story about an orphaned, 7-year-old boy named Buddy; his mischievous, elderly woman cousin; their dog Queenie; and their disapproving relatives. It’s fun, inspirational, and somewhat sad, with a real sense of the 1930s setting and a peek into what likely stirred the writer in Capote.NOTE: The “Tale Blazers” edition is intended for instructional use; it includes the text of the short story plus questions and quizzes about vocabulary and reading comprehension. If you're only interested in the text, you can read the story online here. But for a more pleasurable reading experience, I recommend the children’s edition, illustrated by Beth Peck.
    • 5/5
      Just a lovely tribute to unconditional love given to a child who really needed it. Capote's autobiographical memory of a childhood Christmas.A companion to his later "One Christmas".Os.
    • 4/5
      A sweet description of one Christmas by a seven-year-old boy.
    • 3/5
      Very vivid storytelling. Lots of local color with very few characters
    • 5/5
      This was a wonderful book. As can be expected from Capote, it was really well written, and I was able to relate to the characters in this story a lot better than those in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Very moving.