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.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Apples and Oranges - Marie Brenner

Book Reviews: 'Apples and Oranges' and 'The Film Club'
Apples and Oranges My Brother and Me, Lost and Found By Marie Brenner 268 pages. $24. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux.
 
EXTRACT: ""Is anything in life an accident?" Marie asks. They both came from the same secular Jewish household, heirs to a chain of Texas discount stores called Solo Serve. So how could she become a liberal journalist in New York while her brother turned out to be a Bush-loving, Wagner-listening, evangelical "right-wing nut" growing apples on the other  coast?"
 
READ MORE ABOUT IT in the International Herald Tribune

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