Member: jensenmk82

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About meAcademic, activist.

About my libraryPerhaps I first thought of "my library" in the 1970s. I worked in a second-hand bookshop (San Francisco's McDonald's Books from 1976 to 1989); I was allowed to acquire books by purchasing at cost, and "my library" began to grow. When I began graduate school in 1980 (UC Berkeley, French), I used the concept of a "working library" to justify further acquisitions. In the 1990s I seemed to acquire fewer books, but since 2001 I have grown increasingly interested in more current material and my library has begun to grow again.

GroupsBookMooching, Philosophy and Theory

Favorite authorsDavid Bakan, Peter L. Berger, Henri Bergson, Paul Bénichou, Albert Camus, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, George Eliot, Victor Hugo, William James, James Joyce, Norman Mailer, James Merrill, Karl Popper, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Arnold J. Toynbee, Anthony Trollope, John Updike, Alfred de Vigny, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresCulpepper Books, Garfield Book Company, Half Price Books - Tacoma, King's Books, Tacoma Book Center

Favorite librariesTacoma Public Library - Main Library, University of Puget Sound - Collins Library

Homepagehttp://www.plu.edu/~jensenmk/

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Real nameMark K. Jensen

LocationTacoma, WA

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Member sinceJul 22, 2008

Currently readingBattle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson
The passage of power : the years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
The signal and the noise : why so many predictions--fail but some don't by Nate Silver
Cultural amnesia : necessary memories from history and the arts by Clive James