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Review: Harari’s Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari This book comes with so much hype, and such rave reviews, I was sure I was going to be disappointed. I wasn’t. Harari’s sweeping history of homo-sapiens is riveting from start to finish. The central thesis is simple. What separates us from other species is…
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Review: Tomlisin’s Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America Tommy Tomlinson Tomlisin is a lifelong reporter. It shows in this memoir of eating (and over-eating), love (and loss), and what it means to try to wrestle back a healthy life with a body that is fighting you, in…
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Review: Robinson’s New York 2140
New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson In the New York City one hundred and thirty years in the future, much has changed. Most of coastal Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island is gone. What’s left of downtown Manhattan floods with the tides. The power of the city has moved far uptown to the…
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The BQ(Q) — Matt
Name: Matt Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 42 Height: 6′ 2″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 173 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Tacoma City Marathon Tell us a little about the race. A true test of grit. A very hilly first half. Tactical errors made…
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The BQ(Q) — Blake Boswell
Name: Blake Boswell Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 25 Height (at the time of first BQ): 6’2″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 161 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Carmel Marathon Tell us a little about the race. The race was in the middle of off…
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The BQ(Q) – Bob D
Name Bob D Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 39 Height: 5’10” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 145 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Loco Marathon (Newmarket, NH) Tell us a little about the race. Advertised as fast and flat. Strava gave 861ft, garmin 504ft. Two loop…
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The BQ(Q) John
Name: John Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 53 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5 11 Weight (at the time of first BQ): 146 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? The Woodlands Marathon Tell us a little about the race. Home course. Live on and train on…
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What Are You Reading: A Monthly Newsletter
I’m a pretty voracious reader. On average, I read over fifty books a year and for a long time now, I’ve been writing reviews of them on this website. I’m often asked “what are you reading?” or “I liked, X, what else should I read?” Well, I’m creating a newsletter to answer those questions. Head…
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Nelson’s The Red Parts
The Red Parts: A Memoir of a Trial Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson wrote a book called Jane: A Murder about the brutal murder of her aunt allegedly by a serial killer who was targeting women in Michigan in the late seventies. As she was finalizing the book, and getting ready to go on a book…
Milo and the Calf 