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Member: ArieJvdP

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TagsFiction (623), Education (607), History (553), Africa (436), Sociology (205), Science fiction (117), Numbers (104), Travel (94), Technology (92), Biography (90) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsChinua Achebe, Matthew Arnold, James Bailey, James Lee Burke, Barbara Cleverly, Harriet Doerr, Kieran Egan, Jack Goody, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ryszard Kapuściński, Ken MacLeod, Deirdre McNamer, China Mieville, Walter Mosley, Donald A. Norman, Sara Paretsky, Arturo Pérez-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 meHave 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". Overuse semi-colons.

About my libraryStrengths 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