Well, I tend to be a bit wordy myself so maybe it'll be even easier for me. I can empathize.
Oh... I'm so sorry glad you can do something nice to remember him by. Books weren't exactly a huge thing in my household but I've always kept on to the one my Mother gave me as a little girl. It was a rather precious gift when I got full access to my first library with no Father to breathe down my neck that no good lady needed her nose so far into a book.