http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2008-12-30T00:12+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1200750315.shtml I didn't do as good a job tracking the books I read this year as I did last year, but I think the below covers it. I hope your 2008... Scott Stein 2008-12-30T00:12+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1203973547.shtml ... Scott Stein 2008-02-25T21:02+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1199812209.shtml I had never read anything by Mickey Spillane, so recently I decided to get The Mike Hammer Collection, which contains the first three Mike Hammer novels. I decided this because the... Scott Stein 2008-01-08T17:01+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1199628249.shtml ... Scott Stein 2008-01-06T14:01+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1167851636.shtml 2007 is almost over. Below, more or less in order of reading, are the books I read this calendar year. Most were not published in 2007. It was an interesting year... Scott Stein 2007-12-28T17:12+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1197926869.shtml ... Scott Stein 2007-12-17T21:12+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1190209510.shtml My former student, Pietra Dunmore, a recent graduate of Drexel University, writes to tell me that she is on the cover of a new novel, She's No Angel by Janine A.... Scott Stein 2007-09-19T13:09+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1190080712.shtml I read Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse, in June of 2006. It was my first Jeeves novel. It was one of the funniest, most entertaining novels I'd ever read.... Scott Stein 2007-09-19T03:09+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1183901957.shtml You can read my review of The Age of Abundance in the Philadelphia Inquirer, today, July 8, 2007.... Scott Stein 2007-07-08T13:07+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1168225396.shtml Understanding Comics was recommended on two separate occasions by my friend and colleague, author Paula Marantz Cohen. Last week, I put my Barnes & Noble holiday gift cards to good... Scott Stein 2007-01-08T03:01+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1167853672.shtml I wanted to like American Gods. It sounded like a fun concept--ripe for commentary and satire, perhaps--and was a bestseller, with some enthusiastic praise on the back cover. Neil Gaiman's name... Scott Stein 2007-01-03T19:01+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1166829147.shtml Frank Wilson asks, What's your book of the year? I didn't do a careful job of tracking all of the books I read, but here's my answer:... Scott Stein 2006-12-22T23:12+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1154713896.shtml I picked up Skinny Dip a few months back because I was curious what all the fuss was about. Carl Hiaasen has a successful newspaper column and movie deals and is... Scott Stein 2006-08-04T17:08+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1152668653.shtml This is my second Jeeves novel, set after the first one I read, Code of the Woosters. How Right You Are, Jeeves is certainly entertaining, a breezy read, though I didn't... Scott Stein 2006-08-02T13:08+00:00 http://scottstein.powerblogs.com/posts/1153929753.shtml The full title, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, might be a bit misleading. Much of the book is focused on the history of astronomy. The latter part of the... Scott Stein 2006-07-26T16:07+00:00