Author: seanv2
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Review: Swanson’s Manhunt
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer (P.S.) James Swanson I am an American male who has reached middle age. This means I must read at least one civil war related book a year for the next twenty-five years. This year, I read this gripping account of Lincoln’s assassination, the flight of his killers, and…
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Review: McCarry’s Miernik Dossier
The Miernik Dossier Charles McCarry A clever spy novel written as a series of dossiers from the various spies and spy agencies tied up in a confused cold war battle for influence. All the classic spy novel motifs are here: betrayals both political and personal, glamourous and troubled women, troubled and glamorous men, sex, booze,…
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Review: Morrison’s God Help the Child
God Help the Child: A novel Toni Morrison A minor work by a major author, this slim book by one of the greatest American novelists is beautiful and haunting. It moves back and forth from the allegorical to the realistic tracing the story of Bride, a wounded child who grows into a celebrated, but wounded…
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Review: Harrington’s I’ll Have What She’s Having
I’ll Have What She’s Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting Rebecca Harrington When I decided to do this project where I reviewed every book I read, I thought about how embarrassing some of my selections would be. This is one of those embarrassing selections. A throw-a-away type book in which young comedy writer tries a…
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Review: Price’s The Whites
The Whites: A Novel Richard Price Richard Price is the best crime writer working today. Perhaps that is because he isn’t really a crime writer. Price is a writer of the lives of ordinary, damaged people trying to make sense of a confused, violent, world. In his books, those people tend to be cops and…
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Training Totals for the Week Ending 11.29.2015
Run Miles for the week: 23.4 in 4:14:24 Run Miles for the year: 1,325.9 Projected total run miles for the year: 1449 Run Streak: 4 days Run Streak Mileage: 17.1 (4.3/day) Days Until I Beat My Old Streak 110 Bike Miles for the Week: 0 Bike Miles for the Year: 557.9 Projected total bike…
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Review: Side’s Hellhound on His Trail
Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History Hampton Sides Hampton Side’s gripping, almost moment by moment, recounting of the events surrounding the assignation of Martin Luther King is a must read if the history of the civil rights movement, and the attempts to destroy it, mean anything to…
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The BQ(Q) Tyler Andrews (Hoka One One)
Hoka One One athlete Tyler Andrews is fast. Like, fast, fast. He made his marathon debut at the 2014 Boston Marathon where he ran 2:21:33 and finished 29th overall. Not all of us are this talented, and few of us will ever run this fast, but that doesn’;t mean there isn’t a lot to learn…
Milo and the Calf 