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- Joined
- Dec 18, 2005
- Real Name
- Jonathan
- About Me
Looks like we got ourselves . . . a reader
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- Ithaca, NY
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- Favorite Authors
- Scott F. Andrews, Philip Ball, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Gregory L. Blackstock, Virginia Lee Burton, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lorraine Daston, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Joanne B. Freeman, Atul Gawande, Jacques Le Goff, Stephen Jay Gould, Thich Nhat Hanh, Alex Hortis, Bill James, Kiki Vera Johnson, Laurie Keller, A. R. Moxon, Zachariah OHora, Samantha Power, Nathan W. Pyle, Trav S.D., Nate Silver, Edward R. Tufte, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, David Weinberger, Kathleen Joyce Weldon, Sam Zien
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- Authors mentioned in The World of Yesterday, Best books about books, Books difficult to classify, Club Read's Recommended Nonfiction Written by Women, The Hermenautic Bookshelf, History is a Weapon Recommended Reading List, Labor History, r/AskHistorians' Recommended Books, Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me, Top Five Books of 2015, Totalitarianism and Democratic Erosion: Essential Readings
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Bookstores: All My Friends Books, Autumn Leaves Used Books, Back Pages Books, Book Barn (CLOSED summer 2015), Boston Book Annex, Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Commonwealth Books, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Harvard Book Store, Literati Bookstore, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, MIT Press Bookstore, More Than Words Bookstore, New England Mobile Book Fair, Old Number Six Book Depot, One Green Horse, Our Bookshop (Saugerties, NY), Pazzo Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Raven Used Books, Raven Used Books, Rhythm and Muse, Rodney's Bookstore, Scottie's Book House, Strand Bookstore, The Word, West Side Book Shop
Libraries: Beatley Library - Simmons College, Boston Public Library, Boston Public Library - Roslindale Branch, Boston Public Library - West Roxbury Branch, Cornell University - Mann Library, Cornell University - Olin Library, Cortland Free Library, Homer Babbidge Library (University of Connecticut Main Library), Mansfield Public Library, Newfield Public Library, Tompkins County Public Library, Ulysses Philomathic Library
Other: Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Booksale, Boomerangs (thrift store)
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