Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • The BQ(Q) Allan C

    Proud to share the story of one of my Prospect Park Track Club teammates hitting that BQ. Thanks for sharing your story, Allan!   Name Allan C Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 34 Height: 5’11.5 Weight (at the time of first BQ): 154 At which marathon did you get your first…

  • Review: Enrique’s Sudden Death

    Sudden Death Alvaro Enrique As I’ve written elsewhere recently, my tolerance for difficult prose is at a bit of a low right now. But, if its coupled with a fascinating look at the politics of renaissance Italy, the life of the mysterious trouble painter Caravaggio, and the clever use of tennis as a narrative device,…

  • Review: Kang’s The Vegetarian

    The Vegetarian Han Kang Creepy. Super creepy. Disturbing. Interlocking stories revolving around an abused and disturbed women who turn to vegetarianism appears to instigate a series of events which destroy both her and her family. Of course, it isn’t actually her vegetarianism. It’s about the violence directed at her, the mental illness that violence (may?)…

  • Review: Bennett’s Pond

    Pond Claire-Louise Bennett Smarter minds than mine loved this book. A sort of stream of conscious narration of the life of a women in a small (Irish?) village. The book is often funny, and at times beautiful. The writing is excellent, with complex sentences that are perfectly structured, and the observances of the details of…

  • Your Occasional Stoic: True to My Nature

    Keep this in mind — what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what relation it is, and of what kind, to the whole; and that there is no one who hinders me from always doing and saying the things which are according…

  • Review: Nelson’s Bluets

    Bluets Maggie Nelson A meditation on blue, sorta, but also a inquiry into love, life and theory. This is clearly a precursor to the Argonauts. There’s a similar style and tone, moving from the conversational to the theoretical and back. It isn’t as polished as the Argonauts, nor as emotionally compelling, but still an interesting,…

  • The BQ(Q) – Charlie

    35 years of running and he gets a BQ! Congratulations, Charlie, that’s an incredible accomplishment! Name Charlie Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 54 Height: 5′-11″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 175 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Twin Cities 2010 Tell us a little about the…

  • Review: Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda The collection that made Neruda famous at a young age. A short book comprised of short poems on love in its many forms. Sexual love, emotional love, love love love love love. A young man’s book.*Beautiful in parts but too sentimental for this middle aged…

  • Review: Nelson’s Shiner

    Shiner Maggie Nelson This year, I finally came to grips with something pretty fundamental about my reading interests – I don’t really care about prose. I care about ideas, and characters, and plots. I care about history, personal development, and inspiration. But I do not care about a formal experimentation. I don’t care about clever…

  • Top Ten Posts of 2016

    As I gear up to reinvest in this project in 2017, I figured I’d share with you all the top ten most popular posts and pages of 2016. Thanks to everyone who has stopped by in the last year, I’m looking forward to 2017! Here’s the top ten: Data Analysis of the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire…