On a recent trip to the great state of Maine, my wife and I made a trip to Longfellow Books in Portland. There, I found 'Northland' by Porter Fox featured and picked it up straight away. »
While I don't read too much science fiction, I do have an appreciation for it. Especially if it's engineering based, and actually plausible. 'The Martian' falls directly into this spectrum. »
This book was amazing and fascinating. Childs offers a historical account of ancient America, in a time period that I knew embarrassingly little about but in places I know and love. »
This is a book I had always had in the 'next' position on my book shelf, though never completed. It ended up being heartbreaking, hilarious, strange, disturbing and inventive, all at once. »
Richard Feynman was a scientist who has long entered works I've read (on Oppenheimer, Einstein and others) but whom I knew embarrassingly little about. »
I very much enjoyed Mann's *1492*, and therefore was excited to read the follow-up. The book offers a very interesting viewpoint on what Mann (and others) call the 'Homogenocene', which they postulate is our current era (rather than 'Holocene')... »
Built in the format of several thinkers, farmers and food experts addressing a new generation of farmers, I found the book positive and largely rewarding. Certain letters resonated more than others, though that's expected in a book like this. »
The internet is full of opinions -- opinions on how you should do this, what should you eat, how you should think about that -- sometimes, you just need a good ol' fashioned book that consolidates information and presents one, singular vision »
I've wanted to read 'Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself' for some time as well. The book is documents (quite literally) a road trip that the journalist David Lipsky took with DFW back in 1996, right after the publication of Infinite Jest. »
Since I was young, I've always held a predilection for the field of astrophysics. Some of my earlier memories include writing to NASA labs for material, shooting model rockets, checking out planets and stars with our telescope and going to planetariums with my parents. »
I've said it once, and I'll say it again -- David Foster Wallace was a once-in-a-generation writer who had the uncanny ability to both challenge and entertain his readers in a way that I don't think anyone has been able to do since. »
