Steve Hopkins’ Bookshelves
This Bookshelf: All Books Authors H through M
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All Books Authors A through G
All Books Authors A through G
All Books Authors H through M
All Books Authors H through M
All Books Authors N through Z
All Books Authors N through Z
Current Bookshelf: 2021 Books
Current Bookshelf: 2021 Books
This web page lists all books appearing on the pages of Executive Times and at http://bkrev.blogspot.com from April 1999 through
December 2020 for authors last names from H through M. For the pending list (The Shelf of Possibility) and reviews by Steve Hopkins
in 2021, visit http://www.hopkinsandcompany.com/2021books.html. You can click on the title of a rated book to jump to the detailed
book review. Click on the picture of any jacket cover to jump to amazon.com where you can purchase a copy of any book on this shelf.
You can jump to an issue of Executive Times by hitting the date in the “Issue Date” column. When you hit a broken link, send an e-mail
to books@hopkinsandcompany.com to request what you want.
Key to Ratings 1999-2012
Key to Ratings: 2013 and
after
Outstanding book-read it
now
*****
I love it
Highly recommended
****
I like it
Recommended
***
It’s OK
Mildly recommended
**
I don’t like it
Read if your interest is
strong
*
I hate it
Do Not Read: Take a Pass
DNR
Title (Click on
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Author(s)
Rating
Blog Date
Comments
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A World in
Disarray :
American
Foreign Policy
and the Crisis of
the Old Order
Haass, Richard
Unread
Shelf of Ennui 2019.
Stephen Florida
Habash, Gabe
*****
9/25/17
Winning. After I finished racing through Gabe
Habash’s novel titled, Stephen Florida, the one
word that came to mind was “wow.” The first-
person narrator, Stephen, is a college wrestler and
the novel is set mostly in the final season of senior
year that culminates in a championship match.
Habash’s finely written prose draws readers into
the complicated and troubled mind of Stephen as
he focuses obsessively on winning. What appears
on one level to be a common coming of age story
shifts to a study of a person’s descent into madness.
At another level, it is a story of loneliness and love.
On one level this is a character study of a loner; on
another level, it as an exposition of the complexity
and depth inside each of us. On one page Stephen is
a jerk and on the next page Stephen is you and me.
Reinhardt’s
Garden
Haber, Mark
Unread
Shelf of Ennui 2020.
Puppetmaster:
The Secret Life
of J. Edgar
Hoover
Hack, Richard
***
Feb 05
Excesses. More sad than sensational, this life of
Hoover highlights all the demons he fought, and the
life of fear he created and led.