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About meI am the founder and a developer at LibraryThing.

About my libraryMy interests run to ancient history and languages, especially Greek and Latin. So far I've done maybe 1/2 of what I have. Frankly, it's also gotten a bit mixed-up and redundant, as I use this account for testing the software too. (There are a couple books I test out with, because I know they have certain fields or are in certain libraries.) That said, I've got a good chunk of my history, religion and archaeology in. Greek, Latin and novels to come....

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Favorite authorsKate Auspitz, Ernst Badian, George Ewart Bean, Walter Burkert, Callimachus, Lisa Carey, Constantine Cavafy, C. W. Ceram, Josh Christie, Philippe Coudray, Michael H. Crawford, Robertson Davies, M. I. Finley, Robin Lane Fox, Paul Fussell, Edward Gorey, Paul Graham, Peter Green, Peter Green, Daniel J. Harrington, Herodotus, S. C. Humphreys, Saint I, Patriarch of Constantinople Germanus, Ibn Khaldūn, Ludwig Koenen, Jaron Lanier, Nicholas Lash, Longus, Sabine MacCormack, John McWhorter, Jon Meacham, John P. Meier, Arnaldo Momigliano, Peter Morville, Vladimir Nabokov, Ovid, Ruth Scodel, Timothy Spalding, Mark Twain, David Weinberger (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresAvenue Victor Hugo, Books Etc. (Portland), Borders - Boston, Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Carlson & Turner Books, Changing Hands Bookstore, Comicopia, Commonwealth Books, Commonwealth Books - Milk St, Cunningham Books, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Eren Kitabevi, Faulkner House Books, Harvard Book Store, Harvard University Press Display Room, Longfellow Books, Maine Coast Book Shop & Cafe, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Porter Square Books, Raven Used Book Shop (Northampton, MA), Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Second Run Bookstore, Shaman Drum, Sherman's Books & Stationery, Sherman's Books and Stationery, Bar Harbor, Strand Bookstore, The Green Hand Bookshop, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Waterstone's Boston USA, Yes Books

Favorite librariesAndover-Harvard Theological Library - Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge Public Library - Main Branch, Center for Hellenic Studies Library - Harvard University, J. Josephine Tucker Library - Concord Academy, Library of Congress, Maine Charitable Mechanic Association Library, Portland Public Library, Portland Public Library - Peaks Island Branch, Portsmouth Athenaeum, Schlesinger Library - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, The Boston Athenaeum, The Library of Celsus, Ephesus

Other favoritesLibraryThing H.Q., Harvard Museum of Natural History, Sacred Heart/Saint Dominic Parish, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (museum and shop)

Favorite publishersCandlewick Press, Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors LLC, Mercer University Press, O'Reilly Media, Orbit Books, Osprey Publishing, Penguin Australia, RAND Corporation, Shire Publications, W.W. Norton

Favorite lists100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (That Are Older Than 200 Years), Best Roman Empire Books, Best Science Fiction Novels, A Child's Book Tour of Greece, Favorite Childhood Books, Great Pirate Books, Religious Science Fiction, Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me, Top Five Books of 2013

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Real nameTim Spalding

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Member sinceAug 21, 2005

Currently readingA marginal Jew : rethinking the historical Jesus by John P. Meier
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Whaley Whale (Thingy Things) by Chris Raschka
A history of warfare by John Keegan
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Western languages, AD 100-1500 by Philippe Wolff
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The English Language: A Historical introduction (Canto) by Charles Barber
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Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism: A Novella by Mike Mignola
The Jesuits, a history by David J. Mitchell
The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation (Michael Glazier Books) by Maxwell E. Johnson
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Latin : story of a world language by Jürgen Leonhardt
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