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Pedigree Unknown
While devoting her energy to rehabilitating a mistreated gelding in the aftermath of her broken engagement, Jill discovers that fancy pedigrees are not essential to the success of either people or horses.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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April 14, 2013
you know those emails that go around that talk about "the old days" where everyone played outside all day, and we all drank from the garden hose, and only had to be home when the streetlights went on?
Well, this book pre-dates even that. And it's a wonderful time. I can't quite figure out if our protagonist is part of the idle rich, or in an era where women just didn't DO anything besides get married. She wasn't in school and she didn't have a job and she lived with her parents..
whatever. it had HORSES.
the book was full of great lessons on good vs bad relationships and judgments based on "pedigree". I hope they would be subtle to the target audience and not too preachy.
I'd give it 3.5 stars, b/c it's not a full 4 stars, and I didn't want to snub it at all. It has HORSES!!! :)
Great books for the horse crazy set, or for the developing girls... if nothing else for their simplicity of life. with HORSES. :)
I will continue my quixotic quest to read, and with luck, collect, all the Dorothy Lyons books. If you see one at a tag sale, please pick it up for me! after you read it, of course.
Well, this book pre-dates even that. And it's a wonderful time. I can't quite figure out if our protagonist is part of the idle rich, or in an era where women just didn't DO anything besides get married. She wasn't in school and she didn't have a job and she lived with her parents..
whatever. it had HORSES.
the book was full of great lessons on good vs bad relationships and judgments based on "pedigree". I hope they would be subtle to the target audience and not too preachy.
I'd give it 3.5 stars, b/c it's not a full 4 stars, and I didn't want to snub it at all. It has HORSES!!! :)
Great books for the horse crazy set, or for the developing girls... if nothing else for their simplicity of life. with HORSES. :)
I will continue my quixotic quest to read, and with luck, collect, all the Dorothy Lyons books. If you see one at a tag sale, please pick it up for me! after you read it, of course.
May 27, 2024
A weak 3*. It was a perfectly fine story, but it's so obvious that Hadley is just a horrid person that it made Jill look dumb for trying to win him back. The story would have read so much better if, after breaking up with him, she just moved on with her life.
July 18, 2012
Not really going down as a classic horse story, as Jill's a bit of a twit, and if I didn't know what the author was known for I'd call it more of a romance with horses dashed in. It actually felt like a historical romance, like it was dated earlier than it was written, with only the references to cars making it at all modern.
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