America's Book Club: Linda Chavez on Her Greatest Love

[00:00:00] And you went to college where [00:00:01] >> I went to college at the University of [00:00:03] Colorado. Started off as a night school [00:00:06] student. I was working uh in a [00:00:08] department store and a girlfriend of [00:00:11] mine said she was going to go apply for [00:00:13] college and I went with her and I [00:00:15] thought, well, I'm going to try this [00:00:16] too. Uh and I did and ended up in school [00:00:20] and met my husband the first semester of [00:00:23] college and we were married at the age [00:00:25] of 19 a couple years later. [00:00:27] >> Wow. Okay. Okay. And did you get your [00:00:29] degree? [00:00:30] >> I did. I got my degree in English [00:00:32] literature. Uh I was not a very good [00:00:34] student in high school. I uh skipped [00:00:36] school a lot, not to go out doing bad [00:00:40] things. I stayed home and read. Uh my [00:00:42] dad had taught me to read as a child uh [00:00:45] before the age of six. And one of my [00:00:48] first memories is getting my library [00:00:50] card. That's the first thing we did when [00:00:51] we got to Denver is I went to the [00:00:53] library to get a library card. So um [00:00:56] ended up you know doing quite well in [00:00:58] college and went to graduate school as [00:01:00] well. [00:01:00] >> Why did you pick English literature not [00:01:02] some other subject? [00:01:03] >> I loved books. I loved literature. I it [00:01:06] was my first love. It's actually still [00:01:08] my greatest love is for literature. And [00:01:10] she got