Category: Book review
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Book Review: Undomesticated Women by Anna Blake
This is a very entertaining book. It follows the travels of Anna Blake as she and her dog Mister drove 14 thousand miles in eight months pulling an A frame trailer she calls the Rollin’ Rancho This book takes Anna to clinics she had arranged in advance and takes us with her as she crosses the USA through 30 states…
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Book Review: Mirror Horse by Tamara Williamson.
If your have a horse mad son or daughter this book is required reading, If I had read it when my daughter was riding I would have insited she read it! But what is a mirror horse? The author describes it in the prologue. “As a rider you can confuse yourself, thinking you are the…
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Book Review: Stable Relation by Anna Blake.
I have read Anna Blakes’ poetry and have enjoyed it very much. I have previously reviewed her poetry books Horse Prayers and Horse Woman. But Stable Relation is the first time I have read her autobiogaphical prose. And I have to say I relished reading this book. Anna Blake is a very accomplished horse person…
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Book Review: Riding Through My Life. HRH the Princess Royal.
If you are a horse person you will love this book as I did. If you are not , you will find an interesting read about a very unique woman .
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Book review: For the love of the horse by Mark Rashid.
I first heard of this book from fellow blogger Mary Lynne Carpenter in a review of this book on her blog “The Backyard Horse Blog.” I am glad I decided to get the book as I found it very interestng and there were some of the topics covered that were important to me and Biasini.…
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Book Review: In Plain Sight by Anna Rashbrook
What ever has happened in the past is always subject to memories,interpretations. and reactions. A writer can take events and twist and change them to his own will. And this is what I am doing now using the past to create a new story that holds on to the turth as far as it can…
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Book Review: A Christmas Canter by Anna Rashbrook.
This book is a very entertaining collection of short stories. The first one is Christmas Canter The Ghost of Barley. This story is a very clever reworking of Charles Dickens Christmas Carol. However there is one thing that makes this new reworking specially entertaining. Scrooge is…….a horse! The entire story is written from his point…
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Book Review: Horse by Geraldine Brooks
This is much more than just a ‘horse’ story. There is a horse in this story and he was a real life Thoroughbred stallion, called Lexington, who broke records with his wins as a racehorse and as a sire was the leading sire in North America 16 times. . He lived from 1850 to 1875.…
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Review:The Book of Joy
The Book of Joy : His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams. For 2022 I chose the word Joy to be my word for the year. When I saw this book I thought it was required reading. Several bloggers have expressed interest in knowing more about this book so I…
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Book Review: When Two Spines Align: Dressage Dynamics by Beth Baumert
Attain remarkable rapport with your horse.
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Book Review: Horse Brain-Human Brain by Janet L. Jones PhD.
27 million Americans ride horses.
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Book Review: Horse Woman by Anna Blake
I was delighted when Anna Blake’s new book arrived . I have read other books by her, both poetry and prose. This book, Horse Woman, is poetry. In essence it is an autobiography in poems. These poems give us glimpses into Anna’s childhood as well as her life now. Here are a few lines from…