pickIn the “Dirty Thirties”, families were torn apart by poverty and dire circumstances. The found family, hardships, and resiliency of the characters was wonderful.
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pickIn the “Dirty Thirties”, families were torn apart by poverty and dire circumstances. The found family, hardships, and resiliency of the characters was wonderful.
pickSitting outside in the relative morning cool I finally finished this beautiful story. I think part of me didn‘t want it to end . Having read her biography first shed a different light on this book for me I think. Knowing what I know about her life and way way too early death , even her acknowledgments made me tear up. I‘m about to search out 2 of her previous books.
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This is the true story of a horse named Snowman who was saved from slaughter by a Dutch immigrant. He trained him and he become one of top show jumpers in the country and even won at Madison Square Gardens.
A heart warming story about a horse that exceeded everyone‘s expectations and changed a sport. #truestory 🐎🐴
Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope you have a fabulous day! Here are the #Two4Tuesday questions for today. Everyone is welcome to play!
My answers:
1️⃣ I love watching Grand Prix Dressage and 5 star eventing especially the cross country. If you are interested, below is the world record ride of Charlotte Desjardins on Valegrio.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DcDLLxgWa_Y
2️⃣ The tagged book is one of my favorite true stories. A true rags to riches story.
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Great story even for non-horsey people. This is the true story of Snowman and Henry de Leyer. How Henry rescued him from going to slaughter for $80. They went on to win in the uppermost levels of show jumping against the best horses and riders of the day. Very inspiring!
Until February this year, I had never read a Jilly Cooper book. Is this one of the best books written? No. Is it “politically correct” in today‘s world? No. Is it nevertheless still tremendous fun? Absolutely!
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so-soNot my usual sort of book, but a book club friend said Cooper‘s books were her “guilty pleasure”, so I thought I‘d give it a go.
Written in the 80s and set in the 70s, it‘s very much of its time, but I did end up caring about some and absolutely hating others, which shows I connected with them in some way. So while being far from the best book I‘ve ever read, it‘s far from the worst, too.
pick😭😭😭Omg, Carolyn😭😭😭what kind of book did you send me? This family portrait of a novel takes place before WW2 and right after in the countryside of Australia. We follow champion horse jumper, Rowley Nancarrow, meet and fall in love with his wife, tough as nails, Noah. He moves her to his family‘s homestead at One Tree Farm and life happens and NONE of it is easy. But that doesn‘t take away the beauty of this book and how people go on. I 👇🏼
“He looked deeply into the horse‘s eyes. This horse had his own wisdom, and even though Harry had seen the hurt in his children‘s eyes, he still thought he had made the right decision to pull up yesterday. Take care of your horse and he‘ll take care of you. Harry firmly believed that.” ~ The Eight Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts, page 194
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