Xepherus Reads

     Hello, Fellow Bookworms and Book Dragons,     A Christmas Story is one of my favorite Christmas films. I watch it multiple times a year. But I have never read the book. Sitting at the register in a local book shop was the original short stories that inspired the movie. I could not pass up a chance to read this classic book. Taken from four, short autobiographical essays, Shepard published them in a book, entitled In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. It was from these four stories and another short work that the hilarious screenplay for the beloved movie was born. But this story is not entirely a Christmas one.     The late Jean Shepard's rollicking foray into the life of Ralphie Parker was published in 1966. Recently Penguin Random House, under their Broadway Books imprint, released a new version of the classic tale, collecting five of Jean Shepard's short stories into one volume, r...