Random books from _Celeste_'s library
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada by James Hunter
The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5) by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4) by C. S. Lewis
The Spencers: A Personal History of an English Family by Charles Spencer (Earl Spencer)
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Friends: anghed, EEMandGM, FionaCat, jadelennox, LibraD, MaggieO
Interesting libraries: EEMandGM, FionaCat, jwebbeventer, MaggieO, Morphidae
LibraryThing authors: Tim Jones (senjmito), Patrick Rothfuss (Rothfaust)
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Member: _Celeste_
Library1,071 books — see library
ReviewedNone so far
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Tags@location-rr (640), children/ya (275), fantasy (152), horses (145), @location-br2 (127), fiction (126), @location-s (115), british (114), racing (110) — see all tags
Groups18th-19th Century Britain, Celeste's Library, Cornish books, FantasyFans, Horses, Medieval Europe, Recommend Site Improvements, The Big M Family
Favorite authorsDick Francis, Winston Graham, Christopher Hibbert, Mercedes Lackey, Clement Clarke Moore, Sally Watson (Shared favorites)
Favorite librariesElton S. Karrmann Library
About me 
Passions
I like history, both US and European. (My parents, brother and sister-in-law have the US history books which I borrow shamelessly.) I'm an Anglophile. I studied British and Scottish history books before traveling there. I like historical fiction.
I'm into fantasy. I'm a Mercedes Lackey junkie. I also have a sampling of books from art, music, scifi, mystery, romance, religion, and horror genres.
I like to collect books that meant something to me at different points in my life. At one point growing up, I read only horse stories. You'll notice that I still have a lot of equine related books, particularly concerning American racehorses. I run a website devoted to the history, breeding and offspring of a legendary racehorse.
I also run a website for an actor and I have been in a number of amateur plays, so I have a variety of theatre-related books.

I love illustrated children's books by good artists. I have a collection of 'A Visit from St Nicholas' (aka 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'). To view that collection, check my tag nb4x. Make sure you activate the "comments" column if you want illustrator information. (By the way, to see another excellent 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' collection, be sure to check out MaggieO's tag ttnbc.)
About my library Yes, I've read every single book in my library. In fact, that is one of my criteria: I must not only have read it, I have to want to read it again in order to keep the book as my space is somewhat limited (believe it or not!).
Books not listed
I borrow books from family members, friends and libraries. Those books are not on this list. Nor have I listed e-books, yearbooks, trade books, audio books, and instruction books.
Ratings
I used to rate books, but realized with my wide variety of genres I was comparing apples and oranges. How do you compare 'Winnie-the-Pooh' and Euripides? The ratings were conditional and without knowing the conditions, meaningless, so they came down.
Recent reads and re-reads
Wish List
For those generous friends and relatives wanting to see my wish list, you'll find it here. (And thanks!)
WikiThing
For your convenience (and mine!) my WikiThing user page is here.
Artwork
Any artwork on this page which isn't LibraryThing's or book-related is mine and copyrighted. Please don't use it without my permission. (How's that for ego? I love pretending that someone might want to use my work one day.)
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Homepagehttp://www.celestial-realm.com/
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Real nameCeleste
LocationUSA
Account typepublic, lifetime
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URLs
http://www.librarything.com/profile/_Celeste_ (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/_Celeste_ (library)
Member sinceJan 28, 2006

Comments from other LibraryThing-ers
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posted by _Celeste_ at 1:31 pm (EST) on Jun 20, 2008
Nope. And since he hasn't edited his original posting I don't think he cares :-)
posted by bnielsen at 4:18 pm (EST) on May 15, 2008
posted by _Celeste_ at 2:16 pm (EST) on May 15, 2008
posted by _Celeste_ at 9:51 pm (EST) on May 10, 2008
Fortunately, there's CartoonStock and Cartoonbank. There's apparently a Finnish cartoon about a swearing hedgehog, but... I don't speak Finnish, so I can't tell what's going on at http://www.kiroilevasiili.fi/vanhatsarji...
(Actually, I lie - "perkele" is one of the swear words. I think it refers to a demon. And siili has to mean hedgehog, so kiroileva refers to swearing. But that's about where I max out.)
Pity I can't draw. And have no creative leanings toward cartooning. Looks like the hedgie cartoon area is wide open!
posted by anghed at 8:26 pm (EST) on May 3, 2008
posted by _Celeste_ at 11:17 am (EST) on May 3, 2008
posted by anghed at 8:30 am (EST) on May 3, 2008
posted by _Celeste_ at 2:17 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2008
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