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State of Disobience - Tom Kratman

A State of Disobedience Review by Arnold Vintner on May 5, 2010 at 1:21 am in the Fort Liberty Blog I recently read Tom Kratman's speculative fiction novel A State of Disobedience and I think it's worth recommending.  The book was published in 2003 and is set in the near future. John Ringo describes A State of Disobedience as "Probably the most realistic depiction of the second American revolution ever written" and I find it difficult to disagree with his assessment.  In a way the book reminds me of Robert Heinlein's masterpiece political novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Both of these tomes are almost as much manuals for revolution as they are entertainment, but neither fails to entertain. Kratman's work starts off slow but picks up nicely due to extremely well-made characters.  Tom pours heart and soul into building a large number of realistic three dimensional characters to move the plot of the novel forward. The author borrows heavily from the dark events that led to the murders of the children of Waco, Texas during the Clinton administration.  The main antagonist is an obvious caricature of Hillary Clinton, no one having been able to foresee that George Soros would be able to push Hillary out of the Democratic nomination in 2008."  Read more .... http://www.fortliberty.org/a-state-of-disobedience.html

Spoken from the Heart - Laura Bush

Vermont Public Radio carries NPR's "All Things Considered" gesture toward Laura Bush's biography.  It begins "In her eight years at the White House, former first lady Laura Bush had a Mona Lisa quality to her. That smile -- was it one of peace, one of joy, or was it a mask? Perhaps all three. In her new memoir, Spoken from the Heart, Laura Bush writes about her life, from her early years -- her childhood in Midland, Texas, and the night she was at the wheel when a car accident left a classmate dead -- to her experiences in the White House during her husband's two terms. Bush begins the book with an early memory that reflects part of "a pervasive loss for my family." When she was 2 years old, her mother, Jenna Welch, gave birth to a baby boy who did not survive long enough to leave the Western Clinic in the family's hometown, deep in west Texas. He was not the only baby lost to the Welch family."  Read more at http://www.vpr.net/npr/126555926/

Enron and Horton Foote's Orphans on Broadway

The New York Times reports for your information two plays there, that may come to a stage near you. ENRON';This flashy but labored economics lesson, written by Lucy Prebble and directed by Rupert Goold, works overtime to make entertaining spectacle out of a certain Texas energy company's self-destruction. But the realization sets in early that this British-born exploration of smoke-and-mirrors finances isn't much more than smoke and mirrors itself (2:20). Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th Street , (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. (Brantley)20100506   'THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE' On the basis of the three-work production that begins this New York premiere, Horton Foote's heart-piercing nine-play family album about growing up lonely in early-20th-century Texas should be the great adventure of the theater season. Directed with cinematic fluidity by Michael Wilson (2:50). Signature Theater at Peter Norton Space, 555 West 42nd Street, Clinton , (212) 244-7529, signaturetheatre.org. (Brantley)20100506

Deidre Kelly (Hall) Interview by Cindy Bauer

Cindy Bauer interviews Houston Christian author Deidre Kelly (Hall) It begins: "Q: Tell us what makes you proud to be a writer from Houston, Texas? A: There are so many wonderful writers from Texas, I am very proud to be among them. There is so much diversity in Texas; this helps lay a foundation for a great variety of experiences and interesting points of view that allows for truly unique storylines" Read more at: http://interviewsbycindy.blogspot.com/2010/04/books-in-sync-author-spotlight.html

Texas Mystery Novels

Misterreereader revives our interest in Texas mystery writers with a posting of over 20 titles and 12 authors.  The authors include Susan Wittig Albert; . – Jay Brandon – Bill Crider. – Ben Rehder – Chris Rogers – Barbara Burnett Smith – Karen MacInerney - Leann Sweeney – Rick Riordan - Cindy Daniel  - DR Meredith- Livia J. Washburn .  Check the full list with primary sleuths and settings at http://misterreereeder.blogspot.com/2010/05/monday-mystery-theme-texas-revisited.html

From Abercrombie to the Violet Crown - Burneson

Mike Cox at the Lone Star Book blog has perked up and informs us of a new volume on neighborhood history in Austin. "From Abercrombie to the Violet Crown, A History-in-Progress: Brentwood and Crestview, Austin, Texas" by Susan Burneson. (Available from the author at nimbus@austin.rr.com, $20.) Mike titles his article and begins: " Book on Crestview brings back a lot of memories "My home life didn't quite stack up to "Leave It To Beaver" level in 1958, but all these decades later, it's easy to understand why so many of us who were there tend to look back at the 1950s as an idyllic time. You know. Safe streets. No TAKS tests or whatever they're called now. Homemade Halloween candy. Life in the suburbs, at least in Austin, Texas, USA was generally good. A year after Russia shocked the world by launching the first man-made satellite, I lived in the Crestview neighborhood in Austin. Just a block from our duplex was the Crestview Shopping Center that in one small area provided for most of our day-to-day needs. We could shop at a small grocery store (still in business all these years later), a drug store (yep, still here), a dry cleaners, and a hardware-variety store."  Read more of Mike's essay: http://lonestarbooks.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-on-crestview-brings-back-lot-of.html   This is Mike, still ranging after all these years!

General and Monaville, Texas - Joe Bax

JOE BAX, rancher, lawyer, author A few months ago I was browsing a B&N bookstore and saw an interesting book.  It was short so I picked it up and began reading its 168 pages.  Finished it before I left the store.  Reconstruction period Texas with the old man and his family patching things together until racial strife emerges. The story reveals a portion of Texas not often revealed - many in Texas besides the previous slaves really didn't like the degradation of the institution and the lingering virulence.  The story is tight and moves well.  It's good for the young reader as well as adults.  Get a copy. http://www.emeraldbookcompany.com/authors/bax/ Other reviews: http://texas-history-page.blogspot.com/2009/10/review-of-general-and-monaville-texas.html http://irenewatson.typepad.com/readerviews/2009/08/the-general-and-monaville-texas.html http://detweilermom.blogspot.com/2010/04/general-and-monaville-texas-by-joa-g.html

Kirkus is Dead ! Kirkus Is Alive !

Kirkus Reviews ( http://www.kirkusreviews.com ) , established in 1933 was declared dead a few months ago until the Indiana Pacers' owner bought it and kept it alive.  Their reviews appear early in the publishing stream and known for their saucy commentary.  Kirkus is a mainstay for libraries and bookstores and the subscription is hefty.  A search for "Texas" at the main page brings up a variety of titles (see below) with initial nubbets of the books' reviews; to see the full review, you'll need to subscribe.  For example,  Search Results 1 2 Next Last Search Criteria: Keyword(s): texas Total Records: 20 Date Range: 02/03/2010 to 05/04/2010 Publication(s): Kirkus Reviews Sorted By: Date in Descending order. KEEPER On a day when everything goes wrong, a little girl relies on the magic of the blue moon to turn things around. Since her mother swam away seven years ago, ten-year-old Keeper has lived happily with Signe on a remote slice of Texas coast, convinced May 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Appelt, Kathi THE FACULTY CLUB Jeremy Davis thinks he has it made: Mere days after starting school, a high-ranking professor asks him to be his research assistant; a beautiful and brilliant classmate expresses interest in him; and he is courted by an exclusive club that May 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Tobey, Danny ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NORMAL Novelist and short-story writer Monroe (English/Texas State Univ.; Shambles, 2004, etc.) adopted Marie, an African-American baby, and raised her in the West Texas countryside where single female professors were an oddity and single white women with Apr 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Monroe, Debra BELLY UP Twelve-year-old Teddy is a world traveler with a wildlife-photojournalist father and a mother who does gorilla research. Stateside, the family lives at FunJungle, the world's biggest and newest state-of-the-art zoo and theme park, the pet project of Apr 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Gibbs, Stuart RICHARD WRIGHT This book, part of the publisher's series of short biographies of prominent African-Americans, isn't intended to deliver new information or surprising insights into the life and work of Richard Wright (1908–60). But given that the two major Apr 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Wallach, Jennifer Jensen LYNDON B. JOHNSON Washington Monthly founder Peters (Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, 2005, etc.) paints a mostly unpleasant portrait of a fiercely ambitious climber who Apr 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Peters, Charles WELCOME TO UTOPIA The author starts slowly, but once she gets rid of the early-on clichs ("Roots are rare these days"), she emerges as a sensitive, candid and balanced observer of life in a town that is both everywhere and nowhere. Valby first tries to establish Mar 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Valby, Karen GALVESTON Violence shadowed Roy Cady's childhood in East Texas. His alcoholic father fell to his death; his mother killed herself. She had worked for a bar owner and racketeer, and at 17 Roy started working for him too. Eventually he moved to New Orleans and Mar 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Pizzolatto, Nic HOLLY BLUES Although traffic has been slow at her shops, China and her family—her husband Mike McQuaid, private eye and part-time college professor, his son Brian, and China's niece Caitlin—are making do. When Mike's former wife, Brian's mom Sally Strahorn, Mar 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Albert, Susan Wittig AT THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE Although Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas actually pressed for the passing of the separate bills that effectively became the Compromise of 1850, it was Kentucky Senator Henry Clay who hammered the various proposals by Northerners and Southerners Mar 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Remini, Robert V.

Kirkus Is Dead ! Kirkus Is Alive !

Kirkus Reviews ( http://www.kirkusreviews.com ) , established in 1933 was declared dead a few months ago until the Indiana Pacers' owner bought it and kept it alive.  Their reviews appear early in the publishing stream and known for their saucy commentary.  Kirkus is a mainstay for libraries and bookstores and the subscription is hefty.  A search for "Texas" at the main page brings up a variety of titles (see below) with initial nubbets of the books' reviews; to see the full review, you'll need to subscribe.  For example,  Search Results 1 2 Next Last Search Criteria: Keyword(s): texas Total Records: 20 Date Range: 02/03/2010 to 05/04/2010 Publication(s): Kirkus Reviews Sorted By: Date in Descending order. KEEPER On a day when everything goes wrong, a little girl relies on the magic of the blue moon to turn things around. Since her mother swam away seven years ago, ten-year-old Keeper has lived happily with Signe on a remote slice of Texas coast, convinced May 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Appelt, Kathi THE FACULTY CLUB Jeremy Davis thinks he has it made: Mere days after starting school, a high-ranking professor asks him to be his research assistant; a beautiful and brilliant classmate expresses interest in him; and he is courted by an exclusive club that May 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Tobey, Danny ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NORMAL Novelist and short-story writer Monroe (English/Texas State Univ.; Shambles, 2004, etc.) adopted Marie, an African-American baby, and raised her in the West Texas countryside where single female professors were an oddity and single white women with Apr 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Monroe, Debra BELLY UP Twelve-year-old Teddy is a world traveler with a wildlife-photojournalist father and a mother who does gorilla research. Stateside, the family lives at FunJungle, the world's biggest and newest state-of-the-art zoo and theme park, the pet project of Apr 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Gibbs, Stuart RICHARD WRIGHT This book, part of the publisher's series of short biographies of prominent African-Americans, isn't intended to deliver new information or surprising insights into the life and work of Richard Wright (1908–60). But given that the two major Apr 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Wallach, Jennifer Jensen LYNDON B. JOHNSON Washington Monthly founder Peters (Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, 2005, etc.) paints a mostly unpleasant portrait of a fiercely ambitious climber who Apr 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Peters, Charles WELCOME TO UTOPIA The author starts slowly, but once she gets rid of the early-on clichs ("Roots are rare these days"), she emerges as a sensitive, candid and balanced observer of life in a town that is both everywhere and nowhere. Valby first tries to establish Mar 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Valby, Karen GALVESTON Violence shadowed Roy Cady's childhood in East Texas. His alcoholic father fell to his death; his mother killed herself. She had worked for a bar owner and racketeer, and at 17 Roy started working for him too. Eventually he moved to New Orleans and Mar 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Pizzolatto, Nic HOLLY BLUES Although traffic has been slow at her shops, China and her family—her husband Mike McQuaid, private eye and part-time college professor, his son Brian, and China's niece Caitlin—are making do. When Mike's former wife, Brian's mom Sally Strahorn, Mar 15, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Albert, Susan Wittig AT THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE Although Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas actually pressed for the passing of the separate bills that effectively became the Compromise of 1850, it was Kentucky Senator Henry Clay who hammered the various proposals by Northerners and Southerners Mar 01, 2010 - Kirkus Reviews - Remini, Robert V.

Texas Insitute of Letters Awards for 2009

The Texas Institute of Letters Lon Tinkle Award for excellence during a career, Larry L. King  The Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction of 2009 to Scott Blackwood for We Agreed to Meet Just Here. Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction to Bryan Burrough for The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, Most Significant Scholarly Book Award to Emilio Zamora for Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II.. Steven Turner Award for Best First Novel to John Pipkin for Woods Burner. Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry to William Virgil Davis for Landscape and Journey. The Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story to the late Marjorie Kemper, "Discovered America," in Southwest Review, Fall 2009. The O. Henry Award for Magazine Journalism to John Spong for "Holding Garmsir," in the Texas Monthly, issue January 2009. The Fred Whitehead Award for Best Design of a Trade Book to Lindsay Starr for I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965, The Austin Public Library Friends Foundation Award for Best Children's Book ($500) to Gwendolyn Zepeda for her Sunflowers/Girasoles.

Promised Lands - Elizabeth Crook

The "Random Book Review" begins its review with: "So, I got the genre right this week. Honestly, though, I think I bit off a little more than I wanted to chew. Promised Lands is a novel written by Elizabeth Crook, and the darn thing took all week long to read because it's 509 pages in length. When I picked it out at the library, my husband gave me one of those wary looks and said, "You're not really going to read that, are you?" Oh, ye of little faith! Of course, I couldn't back down from the challenge in his tone, and needless to say, I made it through. And I'm glad, because it's actually a rather good read. Promised Lands is a Western/Historical novel about the Texas Rebellion which started in 1835 and lasted until the spring of 1836. It was published in 1994 by Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. This novel has since been reissued by SMU Press as part of the Southwest Life and Letters series. Elizabeth Crook is the author of two other Western/Historical novels, one published before Promised Lands, and one published since, entitled The Night Journal, which won the 2007 Spur Award. She is a member of the Western Writers of America and The Texas Philosophical Society." Read more about it: http://therandombookreview.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-15-promised-lands.html