BrigitteH's WEbook Profile

BrigitteH

Join Date: 12/10/2008

About me:
A new mother and an old soul- wanting to get published, learning to live as a mommy and a writer. Learning to live without a room of one's own.
My claim to fame: Teaching English in Hong Kong for a few weeks. Falling in love and marrying the man of my dreams. Having a beautiful baby boy and watching him grow.

What I like to read:

Fiction: Children's, Humor/Satire, Literary, Mystery, Religious/Inspirational, Romance, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Short Story, Women's Fiction

Non-Fiction: Art, Architechture & Photography, Cooking, Food & Wine, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Parenting & Family, Pets, Religion, Sex & Relationships, Travel, Women's Studies

Poetry: General
Favorite books:
Lisey's Story, English Patient. On Writing, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Pride and Prejudice, Neverending Story, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Alienist, Memoirs of a Geisha, Blood Sugar,
What I'm reading now:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Journals of Sylvia Plath. essays by Emerson.
Favorite place to read:
Coffee shops Libraries my couch
My other writing:
Love and other trauma a collection of poetry
What I like to write:

Fiction: Literary, Mystery, Romance, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Women's Fiction

Non-Fiction: Sex & Relationships, Women's Studies

Poetry: General
Character I'd like to be for a day:
Clarice Starling at the end of Hannibal- (the very very very end mind you.) Christopher Robin ANY DAY. Any character with magic powers. Harry Potter the first time he flew on a broom.
Favorite authors:
Stephen King. Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Annette Curtis Klause, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Harris, Nikki Giovanni, Louise Gluck