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Member: CelesteM

Library2,558 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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TagsBritish (447), literary fiction (439), 20th Century (241), classic fiction (237), American (236), literary criticism (216), poetry (214), South African (180), history (168), crime fiction (156) — see all tags

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, All Books Africa, Atwoodians, Books Compared, Cemeteries & Gravestones, I Love Jane Austen, I See Dead People['s Books], I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Knitters Inc., Persephone Readers — show all groups , South Africa, Virago Modern Classics

Favorite authorsChinua Achebe, Peter Ackroyd, Anna Akhmatova, Isabel Allende, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Julian Barnes, Roland Barthes, Simone De Beauvoir, John Berger, Isaiah Berlin, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Amy Bloom, Harold Bloom, Heinrich Boll, Jorge Luis Borges, Alain de Botton, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anita Brookner, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, John Le Carre, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Nick Cave, Bruce Chatwin, Geoffrey Chaucer, Agatha Christie, Colette, Joseph Conrad, Wendy Cope, E. E. Cummings, Michael Cunningham, Jacques Derrida, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Drabble, Marguerite Duras, Umberto Eco, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sebastian Faulks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, Margaret Forster, John Fowles, Janet Frame, Robert Frost, William Golding, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted Hughes, Henrik Ibsen, Kazuo Ishiguro, P.D. James, Franz Kafka, Barbara Kingsolver, Antjie Krog, Milan Kundera, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Naguib Mahfouz, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne Du Maurier, Ian McEwan, Anne Michaels, Nancy Mitford, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, V.S. Naipaul, Pablo Neruda, Ben Okri, Michael Ondaatje, Dorothy Parker, Mervyn Peake, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan POE, Annie Proulx, Jean Rhys, Marilynne Robinson, Joseph Roth, Vita Sackville-West, Francoise Sagan, Saki, J.D. Salinger, Olive Schreiner, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Jo Shapcott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dodie Smith, Sophocles, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Patrick Suskind, Dylan Thomas, Leo Tolstoy, Claire Tomalin, Anne Tyler, Marina Warner, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Marianne Wiggins, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Simon Winchester, Jeanette Winterson, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

About me I have been a bookseller for 20 years. Books have been my solace, my escape, my passion and my education, ever since I learnt to read. As a wordmonger, I occasionally dabble in writing. My other hobbies include gardening, renovating our tumble-down house, watching movies, listening to music and knitting. I am married to an IT specialist who also works in the booktrade.

About my library I am about a third of the way through cataloguing my collection. I used to think that my collection was fairly eclectic, but as I've started loading it onto LibraryThing, I have noticed a few trends: I love reading the classics and books about books. I have a fairly decent art book collection and would love to enlarge my collection of Viragos. I enjoy some crime fiction. A portion of my library overlaps with that of my husband, but he reads a lot of science fiction, which I rarely enjoy. Now to decide whether to list his books seperately? It may at least impact positively on my obscurity factor!

The picture of a young woman reading is from Pompei.

Real nameCeleste Mitchell

LocationSouth Africa

Emailceleste_mandiyahoo.co.uk

Account typepublic, paid

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/CelesteM (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/CelesteM (library)

Member sinceOct 19, 2007