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Member: MMcM

Library7,785 books — see library

Reviews41 reviews — see reviews

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Tagsart (886), language (555), plants (353), literature (297), food (272), gardening (271), fiction (245), business (230), poetry (206) — see all tags

GroupsAlexander the Great, anarchism, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Art Books, Art History, Beowulf — show all groups , Bible Collectors, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Bostonians, Catholic Tradition, Cookbookers, Coptic, CueCat questions and help, Dictionaries, Dictionaries & other reference books, Doctor Who, Dog Blessed, Esperanto!, I See Dead People's Books, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, In the Original, Japanese Culture, Language, Learning Arabic, LibraryThing en français, LibraryThing in German, LibraryThing in Portuguese (Brazilian), Lingua Latina, Literature in Portuguese, Mahābhārata Anyone?, Maps and Atlases, Mathematics, Open Source / Volunteer for LibraryThing, PalmThing for LibraryThing, Purely Programmers, Pynchon Pandæmonium, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reading Globally, ReJoyce, Romance Languages, Schemers and Lispers, Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, T.S. Eliot, The Colbert Nation, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), The Middle East, The Turk's Head, Too Obscure, Translating LibraryThing? (General Talk), USERS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Vegetarians and vegans, Wir Philologen, Zoroastrianism

Favorite authorsJorge Luis Borges, Richard Burton, Pliny the Elder, James George Frazer, John Gerard, Edward Gibbon, Henry James, James Joyce, Hugh Kenner, Athanasius Kircher, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Ezra Pound, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Laurence Sterne, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBoston Book Annex, Brattle Book Shop, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, New England Mobile Book Fair, Raven Used Books, Rodney's Bookstore, Schoenhof's Foreign Books

Favorite librariesBoston College - O'Neill Library, Boston Public Library (Central Library, Copley Square), Boston University - Mugar Memorial Library, MIT - Hayden Memorial Library (Building 14)

About me Mathematician. Classicist. Entrepreneur. Art collector.

About my library Areas include language and literature. Many of our books relate to our other collecting interests, such as African and Gandharan art and Chinese furniture. Some books come close to forming collections in their own right, such as vegetarian cookbooks from around the world.

All the books we have at present should be entered and I am trying to keep up with new ones. Tags are still in progress, sometimes only recording where books came from when entered. In particular, tags that subsume others are often missing.

Our house is also full of magazines. So far, I am only cataloging special issues, complete runs, bound volumes, etc. I do not have a good strategy for the rest yet. The same goes for auction catalogs.

I have some bound material from the early days of the ARPANET and AI that I will try to catalog as I uncover it.

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Real nameMike McMahon

LocationChestnut Hill, MA, USA

Emailmmcmcomcast.net

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Member sinceOct 2, 2005