Dave DriftlessGeorge Bounacos2017-03-07T11:17:44-07:00
About Dave
The obsession began as a wiry teen.
While the lovely young fillies would beg Dave to come out and play, he was up in his room with his books.
Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke were so prolific that he never ran out of options and Tolkien’s world was so complex that repeated readings were always on the agenda.
The affair progressed to compulsion with reading lists and wish lists and constant strategizing; eventually evolving on to hoarding so many volumes he could never hope to actually read them all. Alas, adult responsibilities intervened and the passion became quiet for many years. Despair not, as the old flame still smolders and lately the graying bibliophile has regained some of the old fanaticism, focusing on more mature, but equally nerdy topics.
It’s rare for a science, nature or history book to fail to pique his interest and he’s developed a new enthusiasm for writing about his reading experiences. It’s clear that this love affair was meant to last.
Dave’s Reviews
Rocks and isolation... Author: Adam Nicolson It’s known as “The Minch”. It’s a strait that separates the Scottish Highlands from ...
Lunar heroics... Author: Andy Weir It’s humanity’s first lunar city. Constructed in the latter half of the 21st century, the ...
Out of thin air… Author: Sam Kean Sam Kean has done the math. While a standard calculator won’t help you, ...
History in the rocks... Author: Simon Winchester Truth be told, we humans spend most of our lives as two-dimensional creatures. ...
Nice threads... Authors: Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig It may be the most amazing protein in the history of ...
Stranger in a strange land... Author: Shulem Deen The best memoirs take you inside a life completely unlike your own. ...
Antarctica or Bust... Author: Laurie Gwen Shapiro History writing via serendipity. Sometimes the results are fun and intriguing. A few ...
Ursus notorious... Author: Marian Engel Controversy and Canada rarely travel together. So when I stumbled across this book, previously enshrined ...
Ordeal by optimism... Author: Holly Fitzgerald What should I write about? I suspect it’s the most common question that comes ...
Western water woes... Author: David Owen Government water policy. Each individual word is boring and stringing them together doesn’t help ...
History in the dust... Author: Hampton Sides I recently reviewed a book by my latest favorite science writer. It just ...
Pedaling north... Author: Kimball Taylor Mysteries on two wheels. They were turning up all over in southern California just across ...
A life of loss... Author: Zora Neale Hurston Eye-witness testimony. It can be uniquely potent stuff, particularly when it involves ...
Howling heroine... Author: Nate Blakeslee Great drama is irresistible. Since the dawn of humanity people have been enthralled by great ...
The king of kings... It’s aptly named. The undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex is clearly the most famous ...
Fly away home... Author: Fredrik Sjöberg It’s a story of obsession. An obsession with rather small things to be accurate. But ...
Words and wine... Author: Leslie Jamison Ethanol. It’s one of the simplest organic molecules, but its innocent appearance hides the ...
Because that's where the feathers are... Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson Usually a compelling true crime story involves some heinous act, ...
Pensive perambulations... Author: Robert Moor It was inspired by one really long hike. Spanning 2200 miles, from Georgia to Maine, ...
Small town, big story... Author: Timothy B. Tyson He was just ten years old. It was 1970 in Oxford, North ...
