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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 3 of 5 stars A friend told me about this novel way, way back in the early 1990s. I kept forgetting the name of it, but finally bought a copy several years ago, and just now got around to reading it. From the moment Bruce…
State Question 779 was not a good bill. It put the burden of the legislature’s job of funding teacher salaries onto the shoulders of everyone in Oklahoma, hurting the poor the most. And so it failed. One can hope people voted it down because it was a regressive tax and not because they feel like…
Stranded: A Novel by Bracken MacLeod My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a good one. Is it a horror novel? A science fiction novel? An adventure story? Why choose? It’s all the above! Noah Cabot is a deck hand on the Arctic Promise, and the ship is in a very violent storm as…
Fate and The Exorcist: An In-depth Interview with William Peter Blatty by Brian James Freeman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Not really a biography, but an extended interview with William Peter Blatty. It left me with a lot of questions that still aren’t answered, but it was an interesting read. You’ll learn more about…
In the Season of the Sun by Kerry Newcomb My rating: 2 of 5 stars I just didn’t care for it. The story was too heavy on the romance. This will sound sexist, I know, but honestly, the romance was such an important element of the story that I thought Kerry was a woman. Yeah,…
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Call of the Wild has long been one of my favorite books, and it’s the first novel we read together in my AP Literature class to illustrate The Hero’s Journey and introduce literary movements. I’d read London’s The…
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars So many years since my first visit to Jerusalem’s Lot! Way back in the halcyon days of the early 1980s, when the teenage version of myself decided to move out of high fantasy and explore the horror genre, I began by buying an H.P.…
A friend and colleague recently showed me this article in last Sunday’s Oklahoman newspaper. The article quotes an educator with some pretty derogatory and fallacious things to say about teachers with emergency and alternative certification. For instance: “Emergency certified personnel may have had zero experience with children, may have achieved a 1.0 grade-point average or…
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Life We Bury is one of those books where you can see what’s coming from a long way off, but the characters are compelling enough that you want to keep reading. But then everything happens pretty much just like you predicted…
Man Hunter by Dusty Rhodes My rating: 2 of 5 stars This is a novel about Superman playing Santa Claus dressed as Josey Wales in the Old West. It ranged from mildly entertaining to borderline frustrating for over 500 pages, then came to an anti-climactic ending. As I’ve stated before, I break Western novels into…
Steven E. Wedel 