Member: bw42

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GroupsHistory at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery

Favorite authorsJane Austen, James Beard, John Birmingham, Jorge Luis Borges, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll, Pamela Dean, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Durrell, Loren C. Eiseley, Eric Flint, C. S. Forester, Edward Gibbon, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Jordan, James Joyce, Sharon Lee, James M. McPherson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Michael Shaara, Wen Spencer, Wallace Stevens, S. M. Stirling, Rex Stout, Josephine Tey, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Vance, Xenophon (Shared favorites)

About me"It has been said that man is distinguished from animal in that he buys more books than he can read." Edward Lasker

My Stats 6,008 books•Public catalog•Lifetime member•Member since June 7, 2006•#45,396

About my library"all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, where the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people" Virginia Woolf

If you discover a potential error in my library, I encourage you to tell me, and I will do my best to correct it.

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Currently readingThe Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Sir Edward Creasy
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Roman Britain: A New History by Guy De la Bédoyère
The Floating World by James A. Michener
A History of Far Eastern Art by Sherman E. Lee
Halting State by Charles Stross
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Van Doren
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Fast Ships, Black Sails by Ann VanderMeer (Editor)
The End of Order, Versailles, 1919 by Charles L. Mee Jr.
A Wall of Men by Margaret Hill McCarter
The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry by R. Ewart Oakeshott
Sasha by Joel Shepherd
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