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A very quick review as I'm going away tomorrow.
Not an easy book to classify, but I will go with young adult because of Velvet Brown's age. (She was fourteen)
I love the interaction of the Brown family and found them all very easy to relate to. I loved seeing a young girl follow her dreams.
But I did find too much just too improbable and I found the book poorly structured (it took till chapter 7 to get going) and with distractions like (view spoiler) that too ...more
Not an easy book to classify, but I will go with young adult because of Velvet Brown's age. (She was fourteen)
I love the interaction of the Brown family and found them all very easy to relate to. I loved seeing a young girl follow her dreams.
But I did find too much just too improbable and I found the book poorly structured (it took till chapter 7 to get going) and with distractions like (view spoiler) that too ...more
One of the best books ever written about childhood, adulthood and all the days in between. Horse lovers will of course find this fascinating, but it's a book that's much more than a "horse-book". It's a book about family and relationships and knowing your own self and others. I can't recommend it too highly.
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I have read NV many times, with a gap of maybe 30 years since the last. It didn't change for me, I still adore the story, the family, the horse. I think every girl should read it. It's a fairy tale for horse lovers. A favorite passage:
"There are evenings, full of oxygen and soft air, evenings after rain (and triumph) when mist curls out of the mind, when reason is asleep, stretched out on a low beach at the bottom of the heart, when something sings like a cock at dawn, a long-drawn, wild note.
Ve ...more
"There are evenings, full of oxygen and soft air, evenings after rain (and triumph) when mist curls out of the mind, when reason is asleep, stretched out on a low beach at the bottom of the heart, when something sings like a cock at dawn, a long-drawn, wild note.
Ve ...more
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