The Bookshelf, The Parlor, The Young Texas Reader, and the Monthly

The Texas Bookshelf is different from the The Texas Parlor, http://texasparlor.blogspot.com/ . The Texas Parlor carries "general" bookish information and non-book information and even different Texana news and notes of use to the bibliographically challenged and other nosey folks intersted in historical, literary, and cultural observations. Will's Texana Monthly may carry material from either blog, but extends itself beyond those, especially for longer compilations or treatments. The Monthly, the Bookshelf and the Parlor are all companions. So, is the Young Texas Reader http://youngtexasreader.blogspot.com/ which specialized on books and such things for the youngest to the teenagers.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Texas Curiosities - John Kelso

 Texas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, 3rd ed. By John Kelson.  Guilford, Conn.: Insiders Guide / Globe Pequot Press, 2007. pbk ____ pages ISBN 0-7627-4109-0 $13.95  http://www.globepequot.com
The Austin Statesman humor columnist, John Kelso is an oddball specialist and he holds forth on
odd-to-pleasant special things across the state's eight regions. Learn about Dallas' Cow
Goddess, Beaumont's Big Bopper, Eldorado's polygamy, Groom's 2nd tallest cross in the
Western Hemisphere, and Houston's Funeral Museum. Ponder the connections in Kelsoland.
As a gesture to normalcy, Kelso adds sidebars of history to the 200 important things.
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