{"id":1152,"date":"2018-12-31T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:55:44","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FICTION<\/p>\n

Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonnie and Clyde: Resurrection Road<\/span><\/p>\n

Pumpjack Press<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-0997411331 (also available as ebook), 308 pages, $15.95; April 2017<\/p>\n

This new take on the 1934 deaths of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow<\/span> is a fast-moving action-thriller rich with mystery, socio-political commentary, and lingering questions that set up a path for a possible sequel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if?\u201d is one of mankind\u2019s oldest ways to launch a story. Yet, certain aspects of Bonnie and Clyde: Resurrection Road<\/span> fit right into today\u2019s contentious news headlines.<\/p>\n

What if Bonnie and Clyde had been killed by Texas and Louisiana lawmen in that infamous ambush that left two bodies riddled with rifle, pistol and machine gun bullets, plus shotgun pellets? What if they had been pulled out of their car before the ambush, gassed into unconsciousness and replaced by a pair of lookalikes who had no idea they were about to die a couple of minutes later and be buried as \u201cBonnie\u201d and \u201cClyde\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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WESTERN FICTION<\/p>\n

Preston Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Bluster\u2019s Last Stand: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax<\/span><\/p>\n

Wild Horse Press<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-1-68179-096-1, $19.95<\/p>\n

Reading nineteenth-century Old West memoirs can be a fast way to fall asleep<\/span> \u2014 unless they have been written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by San Angelo novelist Preston Lewis,<\/span> a Spur Award winner and former president of the Western Writers of America.<\/p>\n

Bluster\u2019s Last Stand<\/span> is the frequently hilarious fourth book in Lewis\u2019s \u201cMemoirs of H. H. Lomax\u201d series. In this new entry, Lomax survives the Battle of Adobe Walls, gets into a deadly feud with General George Armstrong Custer (whom he derides as \u201cGeneral Bluster\u201d), and later lands an unusual job in Buffalo Bill\u2019s Wild West Show. Along the way, he also works as a bouncer and guard in a Waco bordello and prospects for gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Almanac\u2019s history section needs updating<\/h1>\n

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The 2018\u201319 edition of The Texas Almanac, published by the Texas State Historical Association,<\/span> has been released. The price has gone up $5 for both the hardcover ($44.95) and the paperback ($29.95).<\/p>\n

Featured articles in this edition focus on the state of Texas water and on Texas hunting and fishing. Of course, the Almanac \u2014 which is celebrating its 160th anniversary \u2014 is loaded with all kind of updated statistical, political, geographical, agricultural, and other useful data. It\u2019s a handy reference guide for all things Texan.<\/p>\n

Except history. The Almanac\u2019s history of Texas ends at 1980. It hasn\u2019t been updated in years. I\u2019ve mentioned it in reviewing the last two editions. Odd, since the Almanac is published by the state historical organization, that Texas history gets short shrift in its otherwise excellent publication. A lot has happened in the state since 1980, including the election of two U.S. presidents from Texas and a political paradigm shift from solidly Democratic to staunchly Republican.<\/p>\n

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Campus architecture: <\/span>Texas A&M University Press has published a magnificent oversized book, Architecture That Speaks: S.C.P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M<\/span> by Nancy T. McCoy<\/span> and David G. Woodcock,<\/span> with photographs by Carolyn Brown<\/span> ($40 hardcover).<\/p>\n

The ten buildings, all designed and built between 1929 and 1933 while Vosper served on the campus architecture staff, are still intact today, in spite of the massive building boom on campus in recent decades.<\/p>\n

They are: the Chemistry Building; the Cushing Library; Hart Hall; Walton Hall; the Petroleum Engineering, Geology, and Engineering Experiment Station Building; the Veterinary Hospital; the Administration Building; the Agricultural Engineering Building; the Animal Industries Building; and the Horse Barn.<\/p>\n

Each building gets its own chapter except for four that share two chapters. A concluding chapter looks at the campus today, as Texas A&M tries to strike a balance, in its architecture, between accommodating growth and preserving its heritage.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Bakery bandit:<\/span> Always alert and anticipating an alarm, Gumshoe Zoo awakes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA bread bandit burgled my bakery before breakfast,\u201d bawls Betty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMy counters and cupboards were completely cleared of carrot cake, cornbread, and crackers,\u201d the chef claims.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll dutifully deal with your distressing dilemma,\u201d denotes Gumshoe Zoo.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how talented Texas author Travis Nichols,<\/span> now staying in San Francisco, starts his charming children\u2019s comical caper, Betty\u2019s Burgled Bakery: An Alliteration Adventure<\/span> (Chronicle Books, $14.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n

I love children\u2019s books that are as much fun for adults as for kids (and aren\u2019t most of them?)! This one certainly is.<\/p>\n

Nichols, who grew up in Abilene, tells this tale alliteratively from A to Z, concluding with \u2014 oh, I shouldn\u2019t give away the ending.<\/p>\n

Read it yourself \u2014 or with a youngster who will yip and not yawn as you yuck it up. Nichols\u2019s previous Gumshoe Zoo Detective Agency mystery, Fowl Play<\/span> (also $14.99), delightfully deals with idioms like \u201cput the cart before the horse,\u201d \u201ca fish out of water,\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t count your chickens before they hatch.\u201d It\u2019s as much fun as a barrel of monkeys.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

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