I fell in love with books from a grade school teacher reading to the class. I began to read voraciously after that. Mostly horse stories. I loved horses, wanted to be one, have a pony. By high school my reading habits changed. It wasn't until my 30's that I began to read again. So many years wasted.
It is easier to read essays on substack than books. I do still read books. Not as much as I used to. Some books still capture my attention, perhaps because they revel in life, love and worship. This book is an astonishing example:
Thanks for the title, my country grandfather who had very little formal schooling had a book of horse medicine published in the 1830's then handed down in the family as a necessary aid, he also had a horse. I am sure many readers remember Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell and the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Longfellow. I have not read All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
So cool your grandfather published a book on horse medicine. I have not read All the Pretty Horses.
When I was 15, and living in a small town in Oregon, a young man on a very tall horse stopped at our house and requested water for he and his horse. He said he was riding across the country, heading East. I watched him ride away, fascinated and jealous of that journey.
I fell in love with books from a grade school teacher reading to the class. I began to read voraciously after that. Mostly horse stories. I loved horses, wanted to be one, have a pony. By high school my reading habits changed. It wasn't until my 30's that I began to read again. So many years wasted.
It is easier to read essays on substack than books. I do still read books. Not as much as I used to. Some books still capture my attention, perhaps because they revel in life, love and worship. This book is an astonishing example:
https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506473512/The-Book-of-Nature
Thanks for the title, my country grandfather who had very little formal schooling had a book of horse medicine published in the 1830's then handed down in the family as a necessary aid, he also had a horse. I am sure many readers remember Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell and the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Longfellow. I have not read All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
So cool your grandfather published a book on horse medicine. I have not read All the Pretty Horses.
When I was 15, and living in a small town in Oregon, a young man on a very tall horse stopped at our house and requested water for he and his horse. He said he was riding across the country, heading East. I watched him ride away, fascinated and jealous of that journey.
My grandfather did not publish the book, he owned it. The book was published in the 1830s.
I'm sorry. I should read more carefully.