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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Somewhere, sometime, somebody failed me. How is it I had never read Flowers for Algernon until now? Even my youngest kids say they read it in eighth grade, and they almost never read anything. I make my AP Literature seniors do a tapestry…
West Texas Kill by Johnny D. Boggs My rating: 3 of 5 stars West Texas Kill was pretty good, but certainly isn’t Johnny D. Boggs’ best novel. The structure is well done, with most chapters ending in a cliffhanger. The pace is non-stop action. The characters, though, were just lacking. The only one I really…
I haven’t blogged just to blog in quite a while. So, as I’m sort of between projects and figuring out what to do with myself at the start of summer, I thought I’d do an update on my life. Because both you readers care, right? School’s Out for summer. It was an interesting year. Not…
14 by Peter Clines My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once upon a time, for many years, all I read was horror fiction. These days, my reading tastes vary pretty widely, with horror popping up … rarely. You read too much in one genre, you get burned out. That’s how it was for me, anyway.…
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’d never heard of this book or author until I saw a preview for the movie based on the novel that will be out soon. The movie trailer intrigued me, so I searched out the book. I’m very glad I did, as it was…
Unteachable by Leah Raeder My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wasn’t really sure what to expect with this book. The author was new to me, the “new adult” category was new to me. And the subject matter was … edgy. Maize is an 18-year-old high school student who meets (and has sex with) an…
So, I’m currently working on a short novel (maybe novella) called A Light Beyond. I left a Western novel called Badger’s Bend to work on this one. Before that I wrote another Western novel called Orphan. And before that was a realistic — or mainstream — novel called The Teacher. What do all these (so far unpublished) works have in…
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is one of those novels where I know I was missing something. I could see that there was something bigger going on, but couldn’t quite see the big picture. I’m sure I’m still missing a lot of it, too. The…
Steven E. Wedel 