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Favorite authorsScott F. Andrews, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Gregory L. Blackstock, Virginia Lee Burton, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould, Thich Nhat Hanh, Bill James, Kiki Vera Johnson, Laurie Keller, Zachariah OHora, Samantha Power, Nate Silver, Edward R. Tufte, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, David Weinberger, Kathleen Joyce Weldon (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBack Pages Books, Boston Book Annex, Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Commonwealth Books, Harvard Book Store, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, MIT Press Bookstore, More Than Words Bookstore, New England Mobile Book Fair, Our Bookstore (Saugerties, NY), Pazzo Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Raven Used Books, Raven Used Books, Rhythm and Muse, Rodney's Bookstore, Strand Bookstore

Favorite librariesBeatley Library - Simmons College, Boston Public Library, Boston Public Library - Roslindale Branch

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Currently readingLove in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
SONG OF THE DODO: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
The Political Life of Children by Robert Coles
Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world by David S. Landes
Shakespeare and modern culture by Marjorie B. Garber
U.S.A. : The 42nd parallel, Nineteen-nineteen, The big money by John Dos Passos
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences by Michel Foucault
The Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy Gentleman (The Modern Library) by Laurence Sterne
The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
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