LeeLee8081: Sarah Maslin Nir has been in love with horses from the day she experienced her first horseback ride at the age of two. As she looks back to her childhood and then into her adulthood, she explores how that love developed and grew, how it became an essential part of her being, and how it influenced every part of her life. Through probing recollections of her relationships with horses she has known and loved, and hors lovers she has encountered along the way, she explains the driving fascination and even obsession with horses and the world of horses. Maslin Nir’s experiences as the late-in-life second marriage child of her Holocaust survivor psychiatrist father are an integral part of the story. Throughout the story, she recounts her feelings as she tries to understand and come to terms with her father’s personality and his benevolently aloof attitude toward her. Each chapter of the story focuses on the importance of a particular horse in her life and becomes a building block toward the final picture that reveals what she was looking for and how she found it. At last she comes to the profound realization that her father aspired to achieve mastery. Near the end of the book, she...
United States on Mar 11, 2021
Kangi: Not a bad book but not great either. I've been a horsewoman for 50 years and read many books about horses that deeply touched me or that I had trouble putting down. This book was definitely easy to put down. I found the author's angst about "not fitting in" in the horse world a bit annoying, as, despite her claims to lack of money, she grew on Park Avenue, summered in the Hamptons, and attended Brearley. Too much of the book revolved around moneyed horse people - the woman who imported Marwari horses from India, for example, who keeps her horses on Martha's Vineyard. How many people can afford property on Martha's Vineyard, period, let alone property large enough for horses? This woman prides herself on being a rule-breaker and my first thought was, it's a whole lot easier to be a rule-breaker when you have money to burn. I would have liked some chapters about equally horse-crazy people working hard to make a difference, without a bottomless pit of money to draw upon. The woman who founded/funded Saddle Up and Read while raising her kids and working for $7 and change. The many people who work to rescue/retrain ordinary horses in order to keep them out of the slaughter pipeline....
United States on Dec 28, 2020
harwood: Love the way horses are so pivotal in her life
United Kingdom on Nov 22, 2020
Christine F.: I loved it. I’m a lifelong horse lover and rider. As a child I had plastic horses instead of dolls, I laboriously built paper mache stables, paddocks and tack for them, posed them in outdoor settings like she did, and built a cross country jumping course in my back yard so I could pretend I was riding a great steeplechase horse. Drew horses incessantly in math class and read Marguerite Henry books. At 12 I finally got a wonderful kind pony; had injuries but kept riding, etc.
To this day nothing gets me in the present and out of my self like riding a horse. So she put so many feelings into words.
Also identified with the feeling of not belonging for similar reasons.
This is not a scientific study of why females love horses; it’s emotional and intuitive. But Nir captured the nobility of all horses, and the mysterious essence of why we love them.
Such fun in these times to find a book like this—I could not put the book down and stayed home all day to finish it—a great pleasure.
United States on Sep 10, 2020
Client d'Amazon: only anecdotes. the written is truly boring
France on Aug 28, 2020
James Wilson: As a fellow "horse crazy" this book resonated with me deeply. But it's not just a book for horse people! It's Sarah's story, influenced and impacted by family and people and horses.
Sarah's writing is engaging and has a powerful feeling of place. I was with her on a beach in the Hamptons, just like I was with her and three Warmbloods in the cargo hold of a 747, just like I was alongside her as she galloped faster and faster on an exotic Marwari stallion.
It is clear that horses have the power to change people's lives - that power is shown here, page after page, story after story, life after life. This is a delightful, wonderful, engaging book, and everyone, horse crazy or not, should read it.
United States on Aug 20, 2020
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| Total Reviews | 65 reviews | 223 reviews | 55 reviews |
| Equestrian Sports (Books) | Equestrian Sports | ||
| Horse Riding (Books) | Horse Riding | ||
| ISBN-13 | 978-1501196256 | 978-0525619345 | 978-1400303311 |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster | Random House Publishing Group; Reprint edition | Thomas Nelson; Standard Edition |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5/5 stars of 456 ratings | 4.6/5 stars of 4,564 ratings | 4.9/5 stars of 1,720 ratings |
| Item Weight | 10.2 ounces | 8 ounces | 1.49 pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches | 5.16 x 0.73 x 7.96 inches | 6.38 x 0.88 x 8.3 inches |
| Biology of Horses | Biology of Horses | Biology of Horses | Biology of Horses |
| ISBN-10 | 1501196251 | 0525619348 | 1400303311 |
| Paperback | 304 pages | 336 pages | |
| Best Sellers Rank | #168 in Biology of Horses#353 in Horse Riding #353 in Equestrian Sports | #1 in Biology of Horses#26 in Women's Biographies#114 in Memoirs | #14 in Biology of Horses#321 in Christian Devotionals #826 in Christian Spiritual Growth |
| Language | English | English | English |
United States on Mar 05, 2022