FATHER'S DAY

FATHER'S DAY Our Dad was wonderful. We had a happy childhood. I always liked to purchase a Louis La'Mour book for him for any occasion but Father's Day was good. Louis La'Mour wrote about 147 books. He also wrote children's books and I will look into that sometime soon. My personal favorite was one where the hero was a military man stuck in Siberia. He had to survive the hike out to America. It was a terrific book. His last book had elements of sci-fi, very surprising. He died in 1980 and I was stuck, no more books! Dang! I discovered Tony Hillerman years later, his first book was writen in 1970. I could have been buying them for Dad. Shoot! The only book of Tony Hillerman that I did not enjoy was FINDING MOON. It was not set on the rez, so I was disappointed. His daughter, Anne Hillerman has written twelve books, I have only read two of them and they are excellent. I will check out the rest of them sometime soon. Apparently none of Louis La'Mours four children did not write or at least not in his genre. Sigh.... One other favorite author of mine, Anne McCaffrey, wrote many books some set on the planet Pern of the sentient flying dragons and their bonded partners. Her son, Todd McCaffrey wrote a sequel that addressed he life of the wyverns, a lesser dragon that acted as night watch and worked in mines because it could not see well in day light. That was very good. However the sequel went in the weyrs and had the main character a woman who rode a queen. She fell into a coma. However when it came to the mating flight, the man made love to the comatose woman. Strange and distasteful. The story got a bit more weird when it looked like the girl, when she woke up, had a liking for girls. Anne had handled this nicelyl in previous books. Her daughter, GiGi has written some fine sequels that far surpass those of her brother. I wonder if there other authors out there who progeny have written in their genre. Oh, well. Happy Father's all you great Dad's out there!! I love you!!