re: What Are You Reading Right Now?

I dont know why I didnt say this before. My son's first name is one I've wanted to use for years because of a Louis novel. My son will be Ronan, after Ronan Chantry, when he gets in here in Sept.

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Smoke From This Alter will always be kept where I can read it regularly.

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Faintly, along the shadowed shores of night
I saw a wilderness of stars that flamed
And fluttered as they climbed or sank, and shamed
The crouching dark with shyly twinkling light;
I saw them there, odd fragments quaintly bright,
And wondered at their presence there unclaimed,
That faded slow, like hope's arrested flight.

Or vanished suddenly, like futile fears- -
And some were old and worn like precious things
That youth preserves against encroaching years- -
Some disappeared like songs that no man sings,
But one remained- an ember in the dark-
I crouched alone, and blew upon the spark.

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He did his research into the places and times he wrote about. He also lived a rambling and colorful life.

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He, as no other man ever has, lived what he wrote. He traveled the globe, was a boxer, cowboy, taught to fast draw by a legend, was a sailor...etc. The List is incredible.

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Fair Blows the Wind

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You can't really go wrong with Louis. I don't love his boxing stories, but they were written for a different era. They are still excellently written, subject matter doesnt appeal to me though.

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It was his gift of painting pictures with words that got me into reading.

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He certainly helped me. Though my grandmother and mother were excellent teachers(Gam had a masters from UA in education), they had me reading by 3, books by 4, Great Illustrated Classics at 5. I remember reading Tom Sawyer from front to back. Starting that young really develops the imagination. That, and limiting television. Which I will do to my son.