Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • Review: Sedgwick’s Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

    Ed note: this review was written years ago for a now defunct livejournal account. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century Mark Sedgwick I never said I had refined tastes. Anytime a book has got “secret” and “intellectual history” in the subtitle, I am definitely interested. Hell, I’ll…

  • Totals for the Week Ending 8.30.2015

    Run Miles for the week: 42.4 in 7:12:40 Run Miles for the year: 995.6 Projected total run miles for the year: 1495.4 Weekly/Daily Average to reach 2k miles 58.5/8.4 Run Streak: 0 Did I hit every session of 18/55? N What did I miss? One easy recovery run Runs that were one stupid mile: 0…

  • Review: Lewis’s The Money Culture

    The Money Culture Michael Lewis I love me some Michael Lewis, and I have confessed here before a pleasure in the business tell all book. Michael Lewis wrote one of the genre, Liar’s Poker. This collection of pieces written right before and after Liar’s Poker is all right, but not his best work. I have…

  • Review: Turow’s One L

    Ed. Note: This review was written for a now defunct livejournal account while I was in my first year of law school. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Before I started law school, I was repeatedly told to buy this book by bestselling mystery author…

  • Review: Fasman’s the Geographer’s Library

    The Geographer’s Library Jon Fassman This is the kind of popular novel I generally like, a “literary page turner” that in the old days would have been compared to In the Name of the Rose but which is now compared to the Da vinci Code. Its plot driven, but with intellectual pretenses and is right…

  • Review: Braudel’s The Structure of Everyday Life

    Ed note: this review was written for a now defunct livejournal sometime in 2007. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structure of Everyday Life (Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century) Volume I Fernand Braudel The Phoenix Press Reissue (563 pages) The first volume of Braudel’s massive work on the construction of capitalism in the…

  • Review: Bruadel’s The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th – 18th Century Volume 2

    Ed note: this review was written in 2007, while I was in my first year of law school, for a now long defunct livejournal account I had. The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century -Volume 2) Fernand Braudel The Phonix Press Reissue, 601 pages (Originally published in France as Les Jeux de l’Exchange,…

  • Review: Banksy’s Wall and Piece

    Ed note: This was written for a now defunct livejournal in 2007. So funny to go through these old reviews and see that I wrote about things like Game of Thrones and Banksy before they became household words, covered int he New Yorker. I was once kinda withit I guess, fifteen years ago. Wall and…

  • Review: Eichenwald’s the Informant

    The Informant: A True Story Kurt Eichenwald I don’t want to say too much about this, because if you read it, you should really get the surprised as they come along. Let’s just say it is about a major price fixing scandal that brought down a bunch of powerful people at the powerful Archer Daniels…

  • Review: Martin’s A Storm of Swords

    Ed note: This was written for a new defunct live journal circa 2007 before GOT became the pop culture juggernaut it is now. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) George R.R. Martin Basically a soap opera, but my kind of soap opera, with the occasional swordfight/dragon and or touch…