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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Light in August by William Faulkner My rating: 2 of 5 stars This is time I’d like to have back to read something else. As an author and English teacher I felt guilty because I’d never made myself sit through a William Faulkner novel. Sure, I like “A Rose for Emily” and teach it regularly,…
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s been close to 20 years since I last read The Lord of the Rings. Today I finished The Return of the King again … and am maybe more impressed now than all the times before. Okay, except the first. The…
My oldest son, Alex, got married to a wonderful young woman yesterday. There were many, many memorable moments during the ceremony and reception, not the least of which was the look in Mika’s eyes as she stood facing Alex before they said their vows. The love and happiness seemed to come off her in waves.…
I had a really weird dreams last night. I was trying to get to my childhood home, but there was a gorilla from Planet of the Apes at the corner and he wouldn’t let me pass. So I went a block north to the next street and started going that way, figuring I’d cut through…
Before Christmas break I had my English 3 class reading and writing poetry. It was going like everything else. They hated the reading and their writing was all about how thug they are, how they be smokin’ Mary Jane and gettin’ it all the time, yo. Their subject matter was garbage for the most part,…
I set a goal at Goodreads.com to read 25 books in 2012. I hit that goal pretty early on, so I bumped it up to 35 and finished the year with 37 books read. Or, as I prefer to think of it, 10,451 pages. That’s 3,325 more pages than I read with 17 books in…
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Back in 2005 I was on a panel with George R.R. Martin at Conestoga 9 in Tulsa, Okla. I had never read the man’s work. If I had, well … there would have been a very embarrassing fanboy thing happening right…
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Great Gatsby is one of those keystone novels I use in my senior level AP Literature and Composition class. It is an excellent novel to use in a discussion of symbolism, historical context, point of view, the tragic hero, etc. And,…
Steven E. Wedel 