Cherish all your happy moments:
they make a fine cushion for old age.
[Booth Tarkington]

I’ve been scouring Project Gutenberg (source of the bookplate above) in my ongoing quest for free (or really inexpensive) eBooks. I’ve rediscovered an old favorite, Booth Tarkington. As a child, I read Tarkington’s Penrod and Penrod and Sam— stories about the adventures of little boys growing up around 1900. This time, I started with Tarkington’s first book, The Gentleman from Indiana. I enjoyed it and have now launched into reading his two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. I’ll have plenty to read if I simply stick with Hoosier authors. A few of these include:

• Lloyd C. Douglas, (Magnificent Obsession)
• Ross Lockridge, Jr (Raintree County)
• Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe series)
• Kurt Vonnegut,Jr (Slaughterhouse Five)
• Jessamyn West (Friendly Persuasion)
• Lew Wallace (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ)
• Gene Stratton-Porter (Girl of the Limberlost)
• James Whitcomb Riley (children’s poetry)