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Texas Tuesday: Apparent Danger by David R. Stokes

Posted by Sherry on 4/20/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Nonfiction, Texas, Texas Tuesday

Apparent Danger: The Pastor of America’s First Megachurch and the Texas Murder Trial of the Decade in the 1920′s by David R. Stokes. I get a lot of emails from publicists pitching books that I might want to review here on the blog. Mostly, I don’t respond because a) most of the books just don’t [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee by Patricia Beatty

Posted by Sherry on 1/12/2010 in 2010 Projects, Children's Fiction, History, Texas, Texas Tuesday

My Texas history class at homeschool co-op read this novel over the holidays. Patricia Beatty wrote over fifty books of historical fiction, and every one of them that I’ve read is a winner. Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee is no exception. Our hero is Lewallen, age thirteen, who’s been left to be [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Twelve Projects for 2010

Posted by Sherry on 1/3/2010 in 2010 Projects, Advanced Reading Survey, BIble Reading Project, General, History, LOST Project, Newbery Project, Operation Clean House, Poetry Project, Prayer Project, Projects, Pulitzer Project, Semicolon Book Club, Sunday Salon, Texas Tuesday, U.S. Presidents Reading Project

For the last couple of years, instead of resolutions, I’ve been thinking in terms of projects, lots of projects that I wanted to complete during the year. I wouldn’t say I was any more or less successful with my projects than most people are with resolutions, but I like the tradition anyway and plan to [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Make Way for Sam Houston by Jean Fritz

Posted by Sherry on 11/17/2009 in 2010 Projects, General, Nonfiction, Texas, Texas Tuesday

General Sam Houston: “We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

Posted by Sherry on 11/10/2009 in 2009, 2010 Projects, Children's Fiction, Cybil Awards, General, Texas Tuesday

I read several reviews of this debut novel set in 1899 in Caldwell County, Texas, before I actually read the book itself, and I remember all of the reviews being quite positive. That’s sort of a dangerous thing to do because my expectations can be raised too high—which is exactly what I think happened with [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Luke and the Van Zandt County War by Judith MacBain Alter

Posted by Sherry on 10/20/2009 in 2010 Projects, Children's Fiction, General, Texas, Texas Tuesday

From Canton, Texas: History: According to the History of Van Zandt County by W.S. Mills, M.N. Crestman of Dallas claimed that in 1867, following the contest of ballots, which sent Texas back into the Union, a convention was held in Van Zandt County where it was declared by the citizens that their county be a [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Remember the Alamo

Posted by Sherry on 10/13/2009 in 2010 Projects, General, Texas, Texas Tuesday

To the People of Texas & all Americans in the World Fellow Citizens and Compatriots, I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Joseph A. Altsheler

Posted by Sherry on 10/6/2009 in 2010 Projects, General, Texas Tuesday

In 1918 Joseph A. Altsheler was voted by the nation’s public librarians the most popular author of boys’ books in the United States. I had never heard of him. Had you? Altsheler, who lived and wrote around the turn of the century until his death in 1919, wrote historical adventures stories set during the Civil [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams

Posted by Sherry on 9/29/2009 in 2010 Projects, General, Texas Tuesday

The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams. The trail drive that is described in this memoir took place in 1882 when the author would have been about twenty-three years old. According to this biography, the book is not exactly a true memoir, but is a fictional reconstruction [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Boys and Indians

Posted by Sherry on 9/22/2009 in 2010 Projects, General, Texas, Texas Tuesday

What is it about boys and Indians? Three brothers from a family I grew up with—Tommy, Barry, and Eddie—were fascinated with all things Native American. Tommy, who was my age, brought his authentic Indian headdress to school for show and tell. The boys were in Boy Scouts, and it was the Native American aspects of [...]

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