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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Nodaway Trail by David R. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s pretty unusual for me to go on a binge of a single author’s books, but I’m drinking deep from the well with David R. Lewis. I still need to do a review of his The Endless Journey to an Unknown Destination. But…
Deer Run Trail by David R. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Deer Run Trail is a fine little Western story with an excellent mix of action, romance, humor, and historical detail. It doesn’t have the epic scope of something like Lonesome Dove, and doesn’t really qualify as a book of high literary merit,…
Lord of the Flies by William Golding My rating: 5 of 5 stars It had been such a long, long time since I last read this book. The mid-1980s, I believe. I’d been wanting to re-read it for the third or fourth time for quite a while, and then one of my AP Lit students…
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m giving this one the benefit of the doubt. I think it’ll grow into the 3-star review as I mull it over. For the moment, it’s more like a 2 because the ending really does blow. This is a coming-of-age story…
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart My rating: 2 of 5 stars I read a lot of hype about this book before committing to it and so I had pretty high expectations. And for a while I thought it might live up to it. But in the end, no, it didn’t. The story begins with…
The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck My rating: 3 of 5 stars While The Pastures of Heaven, John Steinbeck’s second book, was leaps and bounds ahead of his debut, Cup of Gold, it still fell short compared to the masterpieces he would produce in his life. There were places where his potential blazes off…
The Wild Inside by Christine Carbo My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m not usually a fan of the police procedural, but the wilderness aspect of this one intrigued me. I’m not at all sorry I read it. Ted Systead listened to the sounds of his father being dragged away and mauled by a grizzly…
If you think the title for this post is pure hyperbole, you haven’t read Senate Bill 1187 closely enough. Among the atrocious things this piece of legislation — passed by the Oklahoma Senate 25-20 on Thursday — does is remove the requirement for school districts to hire certified teachers or do background checks on the…
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a pretty good book, but I don’t really see what qualified it as a Pulitzer Prize nominee. The story is about Jack and Mabel, an “old” man and woman of about 50 years (I no longer find that to be old…
I am a teacher. I teach English at the high school of an independent district within Oklahoma City. I love my job. I love your kids. I call them my kids. I keep blankets in my room for when they’re cold. I feed them peanut butter crackers, beef jerky, or Pop Tarts when Michelle Obama’s…
Steven E. Wedel 