Member: Othemts

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About my libraryI'm a compulsive reader and I like to track the books I read. My library is an attempt to list, tag, rate, and review every book I've ever read. These are not books I own as I don't keep many books in my home. That's what the public library is for after all!

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Favorite authorsKevin Baker, Richard Brautigan, Jan Brunvand, Bill Bryson, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Roddy Doyle, William Faulkner, Jasper Fforde, Tony Hawks, Seamus Heaney, Tony Horwitz, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, W. P. Kinsella, Harper Lee, C. S. Lewis, Armistead Maupin, Patrick McCabe, David McCullough, Toni Morrison, George Plimpton, Michael Pollan, J. D. Salinger, Mark Salzman, John Steinbeck, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, T.H. White, Leonard Wibberley, Virginia Woolf, Chiang Yee (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBrattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Curious George Goes to Wordsworth, Globe Corner Bookstore, Harvard Book Store, Lucy Parsons Center, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Rodney's Bookstore, The Children's Book Shop, Trident Booksellers & Cafe

Favorite librariesBeatley Library - Simmons College, Boston Public Library, Cambridge Public Library - Main Branch, Public Library of Brookline, Somerville Public Library

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Real nameLiam Sullivan

LocationJamaica Plain, MA

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceAug 4, 2007

Currently readingIn defense of food : an eater's manifesto by Michael Pollan
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
How the states got their shapes by Mark Stein
Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce