Author: seanv2
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Book Review: Bosker’s Cork Dork
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste Bianca Bosker A fun book about the world of tasting in general, and wine and sommeliers in particular. I love these sort of experiential journalism books – enterprising young reporter talks to eccentrics…
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Book Review: Levoy’s Ghettoside
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America Jill Levoy A captivating, depressing, challenging, frustrating, must read book about the state of modern policing in poor communities of color. If you’ve read this one, I’d really like to talk about it. Levoy spent a year covering every murder in Los Angeles for the LA Times.…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire – Joseph H
Name Joseph H Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 47 Height: 6’2″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 165 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Baystate Marathon (Lowell, MA) Tell us a little about the race. Flat, fast course run in mid Autumn (New England) How long had…
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Boston Qualifier Questionnaire – Jake
Name Jake Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 48 Height: 5’7″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 168 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? LA Tell us a little about the race. Ran it to just get a qualifier. Ran 6:57 pace through 20 and then cramped in…
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Review: Simenon’s Pietr the Latvian
Pietr the Latvian Georges Simenon The first of the many, many Maigret novels. Many smart people love these novels, but I’m not yet convinced. The writing is strong, the characters compelling, and the plot serviceable, but there’s more than a whiff of anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment here. I might give one more a try since…
Milo and the Calf 