Member: jordsly

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About meUMD Librarian and Grad Student interested in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, Digital Humanities, Fatherhood, Tennis, Soccer, travelling, & Sailing. Matutolypea sufferer

About my libraryThe majority of my collection falls in the categories of European history, European literature, and silly Crime Fiction. In addition, I also have a decent cookbook/beer brewing section, antique book collection and a growing travel section

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Anglophiles, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Books on Books, Bostonians, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, DC UX Book Club, For the Love of Wilde! —show all groups, History: On learning from and writing history, Irish & Celtic Studies, Language, Librarians who LibraryThing, Maryland Librarythingers, Medieval Europe, Naval History and Fiction, New York Review Books, Non-Fiction Readers, Philosophy and Theory, Scandinavian detectives and thrillers, Simmons College, SimmonsCollegeGSLIS, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), Unique Library Thing Book Group, University of Maryland, World History

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Ray Bradbury, Natalie Zemon Davis, Umberto Eco, Saul Friedländer, Neil Gaiman, Carlo Ginzburg, Graham Greene, E. J. Hobsbawm, Aldous Huxley, Michael Jackson, Tony Judt, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Alan Moore, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Alan Sillitoe, Zadie Smith, Steven Spurrier, Edward St. Aubyn, E. P. Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse, Richard Yates, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBooks-a-Million #948, Brattle Book Shop, Commonwealth Books - Milk St, Harvard Book Store, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Porter Square Books, Raven Used Books, Second Story Books, Second Story Books - Rockville, MD, The Annapolis Bookstore, Three Geese in Flight Books, Wonder Book Gaithersburg

Favorite librariesBeatley Library - Simmons College, Boston Public Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, The Boston Athenaeum

Favorite listsThe Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

Homepagehttp://www.jordansly.com

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Real nameJordan

LocationFrederick, MD

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Member sinceSep 10, 2009