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^^^I just learned about this book today. A friend told me about it this morning and at first I thought, "oh no, not another anthropomorphic horse book", as I'm a life-long serious horse person and have had my share of icky-sticky cloying horse books recommended to me.
Then I read - moments before I read your post - the reviews and synopses of Geraldine Brooks' "Horse". Not at all what I expected and happily so. It's much more than that. Here's a link to a synopsis of it . . .
"How to explain to him that her mother is a womb and a grave; a cage and a pair of wings; a feeding tube and a noose. I don't know. I have been trying to find a word for what we were that sit right on my tongue. She take a last look at the graves and then turn back to him. We weren't close. But we were bound. Like duty. Like vows."
"Sweet Home sit just outside the city proper Wharton. Darwin can't work out what could be so sweet about your family sending you somewhere to die but he suppose whoever name it so was hoping that the big green yard, the neat rose bushes and the converted colonial-style mansion would cover up all those other parts."
"Driving make her experience death like any other person in the world--always a possibility, something to guard against, something to fear and the little thrill of escaping it for another day. Driving make her feel ordinary."
"The trees make him feel good, though, spread like big golden umbrellas. He figure some of them must be older than the whole city. He like the idea that something was still standing from before the rotting benches, the crowded pavements, the quarrelling taxi drivers, the governors and revolutionaries, the very road he trod. It good to know that some things does still live long and stay beautiful no matter what going on around them."
I recently finished "The Consequences of Fear," by Jacqueline Winspear the Maisie Dobbs #16, and have one left to reach the end of the published works. Winspear can be a touch maudlin in her telling of Maisie's trials and tragedies in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, but for the most part they are good mysteries just short of romance or cozies.
Primarily, I listen to them while I do my crafts. As I listen, I often think of how more robust people were in that age, despite facing events that most people today might quail in the face of -- well, Americans anyway. I guess Syrians, or Ukranians are showing their mettle. I find listening to these stories give me hope that we might rise to the occasion if faced with similar situations.
I recently finished "The Consequences of Fear," by Jacqueline Winspear the Maisie Dobbs #16, and have one left to reach the end of the published works.
I love that series. Reading her books is a great escape, and I agree about the way she portrays people from that era.
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I finished this book at the library today. I encourage anyone with an artistic bent to incorporate the advice. My complaint? Too short. A graphic memoir that surpasses 400 pages gives me delight!!!
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Maisie Dobbs series
