This Bookshelf: 2021 Books
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Links to All Books from 1999
through 2020 Authors A-G
All Books Authors A through
G
All Books Authors A through
G
Links to All Books from 1999
through 2020 Authors H-M
All Books Authors H
through M
All Books Authors H
through M
Links to All Books from 1999
through 2020 Authors N-Z
All Books Authors N through
Z
All Books Authors N through
Z
Book of Books: An ebook of
books read, reviewed or
skipped from 1999 through
2020
Book of Books
This web page lists all books reviewed by Steve Hopkins at http://bkrev.blogspot.com during 2021 as well as books pending (The Shelf
of Possibility) or relegated to the Shelf of Reproach or the Shelf of Ennui. You can click on the title of a book or on the picture of any
jacket cover to jump to amazon.com where you can purchase a copy of any book on this shelf.
Key to Ratings:
*****
I love it
****
I like it
***
It’s OK
**
I don’t like it
While Justice
Sleeps
Abrams, Stacey
Unread
Release Date: 5/11/21
Homo Irrealis
Aciman, Andre
Unread
Release Date: 1/19/21
Red Dress in Black
and White
Ackerman, Elliot
Unread
Release Date: 5/26/20
2034: A Novel of
the Next World
War
Ackerman, Elliot and
James Stavridis
*****
4/22/21
Realignment. Many of us have the
tendency to think that the way things are
now will continue into the foreseeable
future. In their novel titled, 2034: A Novel
of the Next World War, former military
officers Elliot Ackerman and James
Stavridis present a plausible realignment of
the world order in the relatively near
future. We often read fiction for a good
story about people we recognize as fully
human. The authors provide readers of this
novel with a cast of compelling characters
from multiple countrisaaies. Each main
character is called upon to play a role or
complete a mission, and through luck or
fate they take actions that forward the
strategic interests of their respective
countries. Ackerman and Stavridis capture
the individual and collective vulnerability
we face and prompt readers to consider
how likely it is for their fictional tale to
become true.
Zikora
Adiche, Chimamanda
Ngozi
Unread
Release Date: 10/27/20
Notes on Grief
Adichie,
Chimamanda Ngozi
Unread
Release Date: 5/11/21
The Divorce
Aira, César
Unread
Release Date: 6/1/21
Leave the World
Behind
Alam, Rumaan
*****
1/16/21
Safety. One of the reminders we all
received as we opened the gift of the
pandemic is that life can change in an
instant. Rumaan Alam offers readers a
finely written novel titled, Leave the World
Behind, that places characters into a setting
of uncertainty in which they face a world
that has changed. A couple and their two
children rented a rural house for a week’s
vacation away from New York City. The
owners show up at the house late at night
and ask if they can stay there because