Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !   A Christ mas S tory 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 st ories 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 T r ust, All Others Pay Ca sh . 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 i nto the life of Ra lphie Parker was published in 1966. Recently Penguin Random House, under the ir Br oadway Books imprin t, released a new versio n of the classic tale, collecting five of Jean Shepard's short stories into one volume , r e-branded to gain more notoriety . F e aturing a phot...