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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee My rating: 2 of 5 stars With Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee not only tarnishes her legacy, she commits the worst sin an author can commit. No, I’m not talking about making Atticus Finch a racist. Nor am I talking about making lovable little Scout a raving,…
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry My rating: 4 of 5 stars Larry McMurtry is probably the most frustrating writer I keep coming back to. It irritates me that he slips from head to head to head in the narrative flow. It vexes me that we have to read about the same thing from multiple perspectives…
So, yesterday was a good day. I finished the first draft of a novel tentatively titled The Teacher. This is the first new novel I’ve completed in three years. Needless to say, finally getting over some issues that kept me from writing and actually finishing a new book felt really, really good. Back when After Obsession was…
Dead Man’s Walk by Larry McMurtry My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was with quite a bit of trepidation that I gave McMurtry and his Lonesome Dove crew another shot. If you read my review of Lonesome Dove you know how furious I was with the poor ending of that very, very long novel.…
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman My rating: 2 of 5 stars I’m gonna make a public promise right here: I will never, ever, ever assign to students another novel I haven’t read ahead of time. I assigned this book as summer reading for my incoming senior AP Literature students. (Previous classes lost too many copies…
Since my oldest daughter moved back home and I moved from the office I’d made in her room to my original space in this house, I’ve had a stack of old milk cartons beside my desk. On the top of that stack is a manuscript that has been called Bold Bounty since it was first written…
Originally posted on imy santiago: A couple of weeks ago I read the third installment of a series I really loved. I will refrain from sharing the name of the novel and its author. Like any reader, as soon as I finished reading, I wrote my review. When I tried posting it on Amazon (I…
The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales by Forrest Carter My rating: 3 of 5 stars Certainly not as bad as some reviewers have branded it, The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales is a serviceable sequel to a really good Western novel. This book put me in mind of several other books, most notably Fred Gibson’s…
I have a Confederate battle flag like this one. It used to hang on my wall, and at one time, shortly after we were married, it actually served as a living room curtain (that was because we were poor and couldn’t afford a curtain and the flag was the right size). I’ve owned this flag…
Steven E. Wedel 