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Centered Riding
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Sally Swift
litreader14
, March 22, 2009
Ms Swift's classic book is almost beyond any review, but for those of you who do not know who she is, trust me, she is a spectacular teacher, who gives very useful and concrete exercises to perform while riding on one's own. While most might think Sally Swift is just for dressage (classical) riders, her lessons are really for any rider. And I will give the example that I was a "hunt seat" rider for a university equestrian team, but because we were short of riders for Stock Seat classes (i.e. Western), I got to ride in those as well, and I was known (because I had a classical seat) as "The Marlboro Woman" and did very well as a Stock Seat rider. What "Centered Riding" offers translates to all riding in very useful ways. It also translates to other disciplines as well, as many of the exercises are about posture and maintaining a "soft" focus, which means being able to see what goes on around one without focusing specifically on one thing. Personally, I find it useful in riding but also in ballroom dancing. So, there may be some cross-over interest here for people in other disciplines.
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Chosen by a Horse
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Susan Richards
litreader14
, March 21, 2009
This is a simply and beautifully written book, with great meaning for horse lovers, but also for anyone with sympathy for life itself. Ms. Richards conveys the meaning that one, very singular horse, had in her life, which translates to anyone who has had to cope with loss, whether from an early age or a later one. This is a book that deals with loss, but in its heart, it is a book about hope, and love, and the possibility to reconcile a damaged life with quiet dignity.
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In The Presence Of Horses
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Barbara Dimmick
litreader14
, March 21, 2009
This novel never delivers on its promise. The reader is lead to believe that Natalie will move forward and learn something profound after the death of the black horse Twister. She does learn something profound, but it costs the lives of all the other horses in the stable (her responsibility), yet she never truly moves forward. Her new knowledge, compounded with the horrific deaths, by starvation, of all the horses in her keeping, do not bring her forward to some deep understanding. She is still the tenuous creature she always was. The reader is left with nothing but the horrors of the novel. The writing is nothing special, and the detailed deaths of horses is traumatic without meaning. This novel could have been quite good, there is a brief time toward the end, when Natalie goes back to her hometown, and revisits her old haunts, with all its ghosts, which is quite poignant and true. However, the remainder of the novel is unsatisfactory. The author never takes that little bit of truth to make something meaningful. The movement of the "heroine" to do something positive is only temporary, which we already know she is capable of. She never takes a further step to show real growth. Furthermore, the reader is never given anything to really reflect upon. A very unsatisfying end to an indifferently written novel.
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