Lavender

"Dad, you're reading a book with a lavender cover!"

"Yes I am," I defensively (and a little sheepishly) replied. "I am reading a romance novel."
I was reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. It is probably only the second romance novel that I have ever read. The other, Pride and Prejudice, also by Jane, is my favorite of the two. Now, in every Louis L'Amour book there is a pretty girl, and at the end of the book the guy always gets the girl. But I wouldn't at all call them romance novels! Over the years, I have read a lot of books - mostly outdoor adventures, spiritual, history, or reference. So I guess about every ten or fifteen years I don't mind reading a classic romance novel. The old farmer bought his lovely wife a Jane Austen collection of seven novels for her birthday, so maybe in another 50 years I will have read them all. I'll rank them then.