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What are your ten favorite books on Texas? Something by Larry McMurtry? Cormac McCarthy? Or does your taste run to Elmer Kelton?See the book pages today for a column that tells you what two experts--and one johnny-come-lately--chose. Then post your favorites here. I'll work the results into a column in the near future. |
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Posted by Joy Tipping @ 9:27 PM Sat, Sep 01, 2007
On any list of favorite Texas books, I would have to include Jane Roberts Wood's trilogy "The Train to Estelline," "A Place Called Sweet Shrub," and "Dance a Little Longer." All three are heartwarming without being sappy, and feature feisty heroine Lucy Richards. You'll adore her.
Posted by David Clarkson @ 10:59 AM Sun, Sep 02, 2007
It's a shame that the shimmering treasures of the late R. G. Vliet continue to be ignored. In an email I received from Ms. Alter about two years ago, I was reminded that sometimes a book comes along that "just sings." Vliet's "Rockspring," to name one example, is so lyrically wrought that its song is lost on tin ears. David Clarkson, author of "Vanishing Starlight" a just-published Texas novel.
Posted by Sarah Greene @ 5:24 PM Sun, Sep 02, 2007
Here's my list, and I have to duplicate a few of my friend Jim Lee's:
1.The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
2.Adventures with a Texas Naturalist by Roy Bedichek
3.A Time and a Place by William Humphrey
4.The Second Dune by Shelby Hearon
5.Horse Tradin' by Ben K. Green
6.Interwoven by Sally Reynolds Matthews
7.The Word on the Brazos by J. Mason Brewer
8.Goodbye to a River by John Graves
9.The Gay Place by Bill Brammer
10. A Personal Country by A. C. Greene
Posted by Sarah Greene @ 5:32 PM Sun, Sep 02, 2007
Judy, I think you misspoke in the print edition when you said your list didn't overlap Don Graham's. Looks like you both chose "In a Narrow Grave." Jim Lee (and I) would never pick that one because of the way he libeled East Texas, and the South, in his essay on the Athens Old Fiddlers' contest.
Posted by Joe Truhill @ 4:16 PM Wed, Sep 05, 2007
Ten I like:
A Time For Vultures, Joe Truhil
Ghosts Along The Texas Coast, Docia Schultz Williams
Adams vs Texas, Randal Adams
Sam Houston, James Haley
Where Dreams Die Hard, Carlton Sowers
Bright Side of Disaster, Katherine Center
Twelve Mighty Orphans, Jim Dent
The Stubbron Soil, William Owens