Tag: Review
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Lone Star Review: A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS
A review of Shaun Hamill’s debut novel, A Cosmology of Monsters
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Lone Star Review: TEARS OF THE TRUFFLEPIG
A review of a debut novel Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores
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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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Long-awaited new novel from Elizabeth McCracken
LITERARY FICTION Elizabeth McCracken Bowlaway: A Novel Ecco Hardcover, 978-0-0628-6285-3 (also available as an e-book and an audiobook), 384 pgs., $27.99 February 5, 2019 “They found a body in the Salford Cemetery, but aboveground and alive.” Thus is the hook set. Bertha Truitt appears to have dropped from the sky—there are no footprints in the…
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Review: Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
The unforgettable story of Laika the Soviet space dog, the Cold War, and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union
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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.”…
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