Tag: Lone Star Review
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Lone Star Review: Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
If you like an edge to the books you read, and if you like a disturbing yet truthful glimpse into a harsh reality, Lot offers that and so much more.
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LONE STAR REVIEW: Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird
It’s often tricky to be a woman and a Texan. Sarah Bird, who frequently addresses the endless push-pull of being a woman in the Lone Star State, will make you glad to be both—simultaneously.
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Lone Star Review: THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR by Susan Meissner
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner is a passionate study on humankind’s ability to endure and hope and dream during times of uncertainty, loss, and deprivation.
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LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE by Valeria Luiselli
A family — a man and a woman, both documentarians working with sound (“We accumulated hours of tape of people speaking, telling stories, pausing, telling lies, praying, hesitating, confessing, breathing.”), and a boy, ten, and a girl, five — leave their New York apartment on a cross-country road trip.
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Lone Star Review: My Years With Townes Van Zandt
“The narrative is smoothly written, a stark contrast to the peaks of outlandish behavior and the depths of despair the story chronicles.”
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HIDE WITH ME is expertly woven YA romantic suspense
HIDE WITH ME is expertly woven YA romantic suspense
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Wrestling with God: When I Spoke in Tongues
How can a life guided by deep faith change once you’ve lost all belief in God’s existence?
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Review: Before We Were Strangers
Before We Were Strangers is a stunning romantic thriller that questions the love and loyalty of parents, siblings, and friends.
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Lone Star Review: WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A VOICE LIKE THAT?
“When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton The late Honorable Barbara Jordan grew up in Houston’s Fifth Ward. “She may have looked like other kids … acted like other kids,” Chris Barton writes. “But she sure didn’t sound like other kids. Not with that voice of hers.”…