Riding Lessons: A Novel | Sara Gruen

Riding Lessons: A Novel | Sara Gruen | This is GREAT reading and we need MORE of it!!!!!!!!!!!

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	Riding Lessons: A Novel Sara Gruen Harper Paperbacks, 2007 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 99 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A wonderful read

This is just a very good read about very likeable people and their horses; their tragedies and their triumphs.
I found the story compelling and believable. Yes, as one reviewer points out, some of it seemed a bit of a stretch - but life IS like that - and people under stress Do do the strangest things.
I can easily see most any woman reacting in the very same ways. I know I can see myself trying to cook a dinner far beyond my abilities under the right circumstances - and taking the hair dye to the horse's hide - Yeah - I might have done that too, in similar circumstances.
The situation with the daughter, as well as the relationship with the Mom and Dad rang 100% true. So too, did the relationship with the vet and the Ex - and the horses - it all rang so true.
I was nearly moved to tears in the first chapter - just reading about the connection between horse and rider - the trust, the oneness that takes place, when it all "clicks." I never read a better description of what that feels like. And the telling of what its like to loose such an animal - that too, was done remarkably well.

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This is GREAT reading and we need MORE of it!!!!!!!!!!!

I have read both of her books and as a horse owner and avid reader, I'll tell you they are GREAT!!! A very quick read, it only took a few days for me to read both of them. They are more realistic than most equine fiction and you really find yourself caring about the story and rooting for the heroine. Equine fiction and mystery need more books like this one and writers like Sara.

Awesome Book

I hope that everyone who reads this book will love it! It is really the best book i've ever read

Most fun I've had reading in a long time!

This book was the most fun I've had reading in a long time. I couldn't wait until bedtime to read every night. I'm a horse person who doesn't care to read "horse stories". This book is so real and just feels like I know these people and how they feel. I can't wait to read her second book and many more to come. Even though the author is not a horse person, she has written a book that is true to everyday happenings in the horse world. My sister introduced me to the book and she loved it more than I did and we actually talk about how funny this book is when we get together.

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Flawed but a good read

I like a main character that isn't perfect, but at times I lost patience with this main character whose flaws were so many and so persistent that at times I wanted to throw down the book and scream "get some therapy people!" The plot was engaging however and I ultimately would say it was a good escape read.
The horse details were confusing because some were very accurate, especially the physical descriptions of what a horse feels like, but some were so off. This author seemed to not know the difference between Grand Prix show jumping and eventing. This really bugged me. Also, the idea that any 16 year old would compete at Rolex (FEI 4star) is preposterous, given the number of years it takes to qualify at that level, she would have started eventing at what, age 8??? Like other reviewers I liked the fact that it didn't end with the typical "win of the big competition against all odds". I was also relieved that the author didn't have the main character spring in the saddle after a 20 year absence and take up where she left off. I spent one year out of the saddle and after my first time back I was walking like Ozzie Osbourne for four days....

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