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Member: ArieJvdP

Library2,788 books — see library

Reviews5 reviews — see reviews

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TagsFiction (590), Education (555), History (515), Africa (420), Sociology (188), Numbers (93), Biography (88), Technology (87), Travel (86), Anthropology (74) — see all tags

GroupsChicagoans

Favorite authorsChinua Achebe, Matthew Arnold, James Bailey, James Lee Burke, Barbara Cleverly, Harriet Doerr, Kieran Egan, Jack Goody, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Ken MacLeod, Deirdre McNamer, China Mieville, Walter Mosley, Donald A. Norman, Sara Paretsky, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Michael Polanyi, Alastair Reynolds, Henry Roth, Philip Roth, James Salter, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Jonathan A. Supovitz, Paul Theroux, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Vernor Vinge, Howard Wainer, Robert Charles Wilson, Thomas Wolfe (Shared favorites)

About me Have been reading much too much for far too long; still, not about to stop. More than a bit of a book "geek"; also a numbers "geek". Tend to overuse semi-colons.

About my library Strengths in education, numbers, Africa especially Ethiopia & Eritrea, history and social change.

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Real nameArie J. van der Ploeg

LocationChicago

Emailariejvdpgmail.com

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Member sinceMar 4, 2007