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Favorite authorsErnst Badian, George Ewart Bean, Walter Burkert, Callimachus, Lisa Carey, Constantine Cavafy, C. W. Ceram, Robertson Davies, M. I. Finley, Robin Lane Fox, Paul Fussell, Edward Gorey, Paul Graham, Herodotus, Ibn Khaldūn, Longus, Arnaldo Momigliano, Peter Morville, Vladimir Nabokov, Ovid, Saint Photios, Tim Spalding, Mark Twain, David Weinberger (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAvenue Victor Hugo, Books Etc. (Portland), Brattle Book Shop, Brookline Booksmith, Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Carlson & Turner Books, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Eren Kitabevi, Harvard Book Store, Longfellow Books, Maine Coast Book Shop, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Pages, Porter Square Books, Raven Used Book Shop, Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Second Run Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, Shaman Drum, Strand Bookstore, Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Waterstone's Boston USA

Favorite librariesCambridge Public Library - Main Branch, Maine Charitable Mechanic Association Library, Portland Public Library, Portsmouth Athenaeum, The Boston Athenaeum

Other favoritesLibraryThing H.Q., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (museum and shop)

About meI am the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing.

About my libraryMy interests run to ancient history, Greek and Latin. So far I've done maybe 1/4-1/3 of what I have. Frankly, it's also gotten a bit mixed-up and redundant, as I use this account for testing. (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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Real nameTim Spalding

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Member sinceAug 21, 2005

Currently readingA marginal Jew : rethinking the historical Jesus by John P. Meier
Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians by Enrico Ascalone
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
A history of warfare by John Keegan
Greeks and Romans in the modern world by Roger-Paul Droit
A chronicle of the last pagans by Pierre Chuvin
Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Western languages, AD 100-1500 by Philippe Wolff
An imperial possession : Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409 by D. J. Mattingly
The Downing Street years by Margaret Thatcher
The English Language: A Historical introduction (Canto) by Charles Barber
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