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Habitual Reader Profiles - Page 1
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Name: Laura LeHew |
| City & State: Eugene, Oregon | |
| Vocation / Avocation: Poet | |
| Website: www.utteredchaos.org |
Why I'm a Habitual Reader:
1. My mother read Grimm's Fairy Tales to me as a small child and it is still
one of my favorites to re-read.
2. When I first started reading on my own I was forbidden to read the books
on the top shelf, they were science fiction; when my parents went to sleep
I snuck the books into my room and read them by flashlight.
3. Growing up my sisters wanted clothes or dolls, I wanted gift certificates
to book stores.
4. Every trip I go on, and they are many, I bring too many books to ever
possibly read, read them, buy more books and ship back a box.
5. When I went to China, instead of buying jade or other native artifacts
I bought several books that I couldn't find in the US.
6. When we remodeled our house the first room we added was - the library,
we opted for function in lieu of form and left room for more floor to ceiling
shelves (should the need ever arise).
7. The library had a comfy sofa and chairs and adequate lighting 3 years
before my living room did.
8. They know me on a first name basis at the local new and used bookstore(s)
and will order anything I want with just a simple email.
My List of Ten: Books of Poetry by Outstanding Women
1. Morning in the Burned House
Author: Margaret Atwood
2. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Author: Anne Carson
3. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickenson (unabridged)
Author: Emily Dickenson
4. First Four Books Of Poems
Author: Louis Gluck
5. She Had Some Horses
Author: Joy Harjo
6. Poems
Author: Jane Hirshfield
7. What the Living Do: Poems
Author: Marie Howe
8. Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
9. The Dead and the Living
Author: Sharon Olds
10. Collected Poems
Author: Sylvia Plath
Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.
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