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Post by susanb on Aug 19, 2016 0:00:49 GMT 1
ROFL....a kindred spirit! My idea of roughing it is a hotel room where the bathroom isn't en suite....barbaric!
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Post by kirki04 on Jan 5, 2017 21:06:21 GMT 1
My 6 year old daughter has got the horse bug and is enjoying reading. So she is reading my first volume of The Silver Brumby. Sad to say the front cover is getting worn and some of the pages are wanting to come out but she absolutley loves Thowra! It's been a good few years since reading all 6 books so i'm loving going back on the journey! We've just got to the part where Thowra and Storm end up bumping into The Brolga's herd and Thowra sees Boon Boon for the first time. Ahhh
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Post by haffyfan on Jan 10, 2017 21:16:56 GMT 1
Kunuma will be proud of me as i'm plugging my way through The saddle Club. I did have the first few when they were first published but currently up to no.26 and still going so watch this space.
How many are they? I bought a box full of them off ebay years ago now really cheaply, some titles are missing later on but they go up to about number 65 i think.
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Post by Claire on Jan 10, 2017 23:05:12 GMT 1
My 6 year old daughter has got the horse bug and is enjoying reading. So she is reading my first volume of The Silver Brumby. Sad to say the front cover is getting worn and some of the pages are wanting to come out but she absolutley loves Thowra! It's been a good few years since reading all 6 books so i'm loving going back on the journey! We've just got to the part where Thowra and Storm end up bumping into The Brolga's herd and Thowra sees Boon Boon for the first time. Ahhh They can be read at any age can't they? I 've been reading them for almost 40 years!! MInd you Your daughter's a very good reader for 6! I think I was a couple of years older when I first read them. Lol Haffy are you trying to break Kunuma's record as the only person over 11 to have read the full series....? I'm reading Led by the Grey. having heard good things about it on here. Certainly not your run of the mill pony book. Enjoying it, with a couple of little niggles. May do a review of it when I'm finished if I ever have a free moment.
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Post by kunuma1 on Jan 11, 2017 16:36:19 GMT 1
Kunuma will be proud of me as i'm plugging my way through The saddle Club. I did have the first few when they were first published but currently up to no.26 and still going so watch this space. How many are they? I bought a box full of them off ebay years ago now really cheaply, some titles are missing later on but they go up to about number 65 i think. only up to number 65? you wish!! LOL There's at least thirty more after that!! Not to mention the Pine Hollow series - which I can lend you----- wicked chuckle!!
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Post by darkhorse on Jan 11, 2017 19:33:35 GMT 1
Lol Kunuma, I think your record may remain unbroken.
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Post by haffyfan on Jan 12, 2017 20:54:55 GMT 1
Lol Kunuma, I think your record may remain unbroken. Lol so do I, didn't realise there was so many of them! Did notice one i don't have is called side saddle - is it worth buying Kunuma do you recall? I'm trying to work out how old the girls will be when i finish reading as Lisa seems to have been riding a couple of years already at 26, yet she had never ridden in no.1... I had assumed the girls were ageless like Jackie, well maybe they are are and it's just time that moves on.
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Post by Claire on Jan 12, 2017 23:01:31 GMT 1
Oh I forgot to mention Haffy and Kunuma, there's some pegasuses (or is that pegusi?) in Led by the Grey. Well actually they are miniature pegasuses and they are called pegusinni! Ah takes me back to the old days when we all spent ages on Howrse...
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Post by kunuma1 on Jan 13, 2017 16:41:31 GMT 1
Lol Kunuma, I think your record may remain unbroken. Lol so do I, didn't realise there was so many of them! Did notice one i don't have is called side saddle - is it worth buying Kunuma do you recall? I'm trying to work out how old the girls will be when i finish reading as Lisa seems to have been riding a couple of years already at 26, yet she had never ridden in no.1... I had assumed the girls were ageless like Jackie, well maybe they are are and it's just time that moves on. Hmm, I have to admit that I do have one or two gaps myself - will check and see if I have got Sidesaddle - I've got nearly all of the early ones but quite a few gaps once we get past 70. The girls stay seemingly static in age until they get towards the end - then they age fast!! They are all driving in the Pine Hollow ones (cars that is!) Not good at driving though, the first thing they do is run over a horse! Just checked, I do have Sidesaddle, it's number 88 with an Appy on the front', you can't read it yet if you have only got to number 26 - no cheating!! Let me know when you run out of books and I will send you the next ones, (you are not wriggling out of it I refuse to be the only person on earth who has read them all!)
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Post by kunuma1 on Jan 13, 2017 16:45:13 GMT 1
Oh I forgot to mention Haffy and Kunuma, there's some pegasuses (or is that pegusi?) in Led by the Grey. Well actually they are miniature pegasuses and they are called pegusinni! Ah takes me back to the old days when we all spent ages on Howrse... Erm, one or two of us still do................................................ reminds me, I have a youngster or two to blup!!
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Post by ginslinger on Apr 9, 2017 11:55:06 GMT 1
I picked up The Swallow Summer in a charity shop and read that recently. It is ok but not a patch on the Peytons I read when I was younger - is it designed for less able readers? Of course no pony club camp based adventure is going to come up to JPT's for me .
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Post by tintin on Apr 10, 2017 9:28:41 GMT 1
Haffy and Kunuma
I reviewed Side saddle on here - I think it is No.88 - it is a n averagey sort of book, but has no real side saddle atmosphere or indeed much about side saddle in it. It did n't inspire me to read any more of the series at all
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Post by haffyfan on Aug 8, 2017 20:04:07 GMT 1
Haffy and Kunuma I reviewed Side saddle on here - I think it is No.88 - it is a n averagey sort of book, but has no real side saddle atmosphere or indeed much about side saddle in it. It did n't inspire me to read any more of the series at all Sorry missed this and didn't get around to buying a copy, sounds like i wasn't missing much anyhow. I've now read the first 70 which I bought on ebay years ago (very cheaply before anyone says anything!), well i bought a couple to fill in the gaps but that's me done, don't think i could face another. To be fair some were much better than others, it very much depends on who wrote it.
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Post by foxglove on Aug 23, 2017 11:33:13 GMT 1
Got a backlog of random pony books from charity shops bought in the last year; recently read Ponies At Westways. Fairly predictable school/pony tale, but the interaction between adolescent girls was quite accurate.
I picked up an excellent condition hardback of The Heron Ride, in what looks like the first edition for a couple of quid. I have the paperback I remember from my school library but wondered if anyone wanted the hardback if it's rare. It's not a favourite of mine but I thought someone on here might want it.
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Post by fizz on Aug 24, 2017 19:49:36 GMT 1
Just finished "After the Pony Club" by Naomi Jessica Rose. In fact I read it in one sitting and it's quite a fat book. It is fanfic about West Barsetshire and what became of the protagonists. I will not say any thing at the moment, but I wonder who else has read it and what they thought? I may do a review at some point, but there would be spoilers and it would be a shame to do that.
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Post by haffyfan on Aug 25, 2017 11:47:07 GMT 1
Just finished "After the Pony Club" by Naomi Jessica Rose. In fact I read it in one sitting and it's quite a fat book. It is fanfic about West Barsetshire and what became of the protagonists. I will not say any thing at the moment, but I wonder who else has read it and what they thought? I may do a review at some point, but there would be spoilers and it would be a shame to do that. Yes i've read it and can't offer anything more profound without spoilers than I found it a trifle odd! Fanfic will always be subjective of course and it just didn't match my own character development or where/what i would have taken/done with the plot in the same circumstances.
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Post by Kunuma lost again! on Aug 25, 2017 16:20:39 GMT 1
Just finished "After the Pony Club" by Naomi Jessica Rose. In fact I read it in one sitting and it's quite a fat book. It is fanfic about West Barsetshire and what became of the protagonists. I will not say any thing at the moment, but I wonder who else has read it and what they thought? I may do a review at some point, but there would be spoilers and it would be a shame to do that. Yes i've read it and can't offer anything more profound without spoilers than I found it a trifle odd! Fanfic will always be subjective of course and it just didn't match my own character development or where/what i would have taken/done with the plot in the same circumstances. I've read the first few pages of After the Pony Club too, (looked into it on Amazon) it appeared to be taking off in a really weird direction - more currently popular teen angst than pony club!!
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Post by fizz on Aug 25, 2017 22:19:34 GMT 1
I enjoyed it a lot, but I imagine it would be controversial, the direction a character goes in was surprising to say the least.....but I thought it well researched and had the feel and qualities of some of the originals. It was clearly aimed at adults and of the generation who read the books first time around. Interesting angles I thought and not the ending one would have imagined. I think also she leaves it open for a sequel....
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Post by ginslinger on Aug 25, 2017 23:40:43 GMT 1
Oh goodness, I don't know if I want to read that .. I am intermittently writing my own fanfic for personal amusement and don't know if I would want to see someone else's take on it at this point. And can you even publish something with someone else's characters when it is still in copyright?
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Post by fizz on Aug 26, 2017 9:13:04 GMT 1
She had permission to write it. Well I thought it was very good, well written, but what would I know?
Couple of glaring errors. Calling hounds dogs, Guardian reader obviously, and ages mixed up in one case, editing should have picked this up.
Surprised that people didn't like.
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Post by ginslinger on Sept 9, 2017 11:19:40 GMT 1
I have just replaced my kindle so I may give it a go. Fizz it may well be well written and even a good story on its own terms but it is borrowing characters from a much loved series and unless the author has a remarkable skill in capturing character and tone it may alienate fans of the original rather than attract them. Personally, I know I am really nitpicky, though I am trying to tell myself "it's drama, not documentary" when some historical or period tv ahow makes an error. Downton Abbey lost me when the governess cart turned out to be a dog cart.
Anyway I am currently reading Death at the Dog by Joanna Cannan. Not a sniff of a horse but clearly a strong influence and inspiration for JPT'S own detective books. And also a source of names for Christine's later Chill Valley series. Two characters called Valentine Day can't be a coincidence and both have a farm worker called Bert Saunders.
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Post by Claire on Sept 9, 2017 21:20:37 GMT 1
I have just replaced my kindle so I may give it a go. Fizz it may well be well written and even a good story on its own terms but it is borrowing characters from a much loved series and unless the author has a remarkable skill in capturing character and tone it may alienate fans of the original rather than attract them. I totally agree with this - it's why I'm not a huge fan of fanfic, ok for the writer themselves to explore their favourite characters in new wayss but I don't really agree with publication of it for the same reasons as gin. That said, I'm not totally averse to reading this - but I will probably be very critical!
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Post by fizz on Sept 10, 2017 10:28:31 GMT 1
Well I'm pretty picky (or so I thought) and I thought on the whole she'd done a pretty good job. There is one part of the book that will no doubt make people think "really" and have them scrabbling to look at their originals for clues. She uses dogs instead of hounds and there is a nod to 21st cetury thinking on hunting as well which might not sit well with purists. She had the go ahead from Charlotte Popescu I think.
I know what you mean about details though Ginslinger, dogs jumped out at me (not literally I am thankful to say). All the money that Netflix threw at the Crown and all the details, including trying so hard to match Aureole and the three mares. They had the Queen going to the stables just after Aureole won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in July, Winston Churchill was watching it on TV, and when moments later he was showing Graham Sutherland round the garden all the summer flowers were out, but at the stables it is winter, all the horses are woolley and the trees are bare, then it cuts to summer again! The continuity with seasons seems a big difficulty on TV with Downton Abbey having a lot of seasonal problems!
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Post by susanb on Sept 10, 2017 20:03:49 GMT 1
ginslinger, I really enjoyed Death at the Dog, as well as the other Guy Northeast mystery, They Rang Up the Police. For some reason that one is really hard to find in it's original hardcover edition, and it hasn't come on kindle yet.....the paperback reprint from Rue Morgue Press is easy to find from the US though.
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Post by haffyfan on Oct 2, 2017 19:10:38 GMT 1
I've just started reading The Horses (Elaine Walker i want to say is the author but it's upstairs so i'm not 100% sure). Really enjoying it so far, it's i guess post apocalyptic, not really sure yet what actually happened but the family were on holiday and since the 'event' have been living on a croft, i assume, in the Highlands. The father's death brings the 'horses' into the family's life and there's a definite magical, almost spiritual feeling to it at present.
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Post by haffyfan on Oct 13, 2017 19:26:38 GMT 1
Absolutely loved The Horses, wonderful, almost haunting book and beautifully written. Would highly recommend to all!
I have also started re-reading some old favourites, Kate and The mystery Ponies and Kate and The Horrible Horse, i had forgot they were religious published, skip the god bits (not my thing) and they are great reads. Thinking about it i also really enjoyed Roughshod Ride and The ponies of Swallowdale farm, which were also christian books.
Currently re-reading the original texts of Noel and henry series now, you forget how much more in depth she took the characters in these, especially some of the adults, i think all these bits were cut from the later editions.
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Post by cally on Oct 14, 2017 11:46:32 GMT 1
Hello all! I wonder if this still works? Sorry it's been a while but I've been saving all my $ to come to the UK which we finally DID so haven't been buying many books. Did pick up an old book in a 2nd hand/antiquarian shop in Stow-on-the-Wold which was lovely: it's called 'Minda' and has a dustjacket and was written by Kathleen Mackenzie and published in 1953 [1959]. Sadly, someone's torn most of the illustrations out (by Maurice Tulloch).
Got to FINALLY meet the very gorgeous Claire and if I wasn't a completely inadequate twit with a computer I could post a pic of us together.
Trip of a lifetime: now have to work out how to emigrate (we have dual citizenship) asap keeping in mind we have 2 sons who I miss when they go out of an evening, Pete being 20 and at uni and Tom is only 16, I think it will be a few years. Don't know how I'll wait that long here.
England is beautiful and the people, especially away from London, are lovely: good humoured, always up for a laugh and a chat- loved the North West and want to move to the Dales.
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Post by Claire on Oct 14, 2017 20:57:40 GMT 1
Got to FINALLY meet the very gorgeous Claire and if I wasn't a completely inadequate twit with a computer I could post a pic of us together. Trip of a lifetime: now have to work out how to emigrate (we have dual citizenship) asap keeping in mind we have 2 sons who I miss when they go out of an evening, Pete being 20 and at uni and Tom is only 16, I think it will be a few years. Don't know how I'll wait that long here. England is beautiful and the people, especially away from London, are lovely: good humoured, always up for a laugh and a chat- loved the North West and want to move to the Dales. Aww you're so kind Cally. It was fantastic to meet you too. And I'm glad you've become a fellow Dales lover. So now I've met two of the Pumbles, hoping to meet many more of you lovely people sometime somehow! I'm having a little break from pony books after the Summer Challenge and re-reading a few Agatha Christies, I even found a book of short stories by her, some of which, amazingly, I'd never read before !!! (Its called The Golden Ball and Other Stories).
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Post by kunuma1 on Oct 15, 2017 17:19:12 GMT 1
Hello all! I wonder if this still works? Sorry it's been a while but I've been saving all my $ to come to the UK which we finally DID so haven't been buying many books. Did pick up an old book in a 2nd hand/antiquarian shop in Stow-on-the-Wold which was lovely: it's called 'Minda' and has a dustjacket and was written by Kathleen Mackenzie and published in 1953 [1959]. Sadly, someone's torn most of the illustrations out (by Maurice Tulloch). Got to FINALLY meet the very gorgeous Claire and if I wasn't a completely inadequate twit with a computer I could post a pic of us together. Trip of a lifetime: now have to work out how to emigrate (we have dual citizenship) asap keeping in mind we have 2 sons who I miss when they go out of an evening, Pete being 20 and at uni and Tom is only 16, I think it will be a few years. Don't know how I'll wait that long here. England is beautiful and the people, especially away from London, are lovely: good humoured, always up for a laugh and a chat- loved the North West and want to move to the Dales. Well done for managing the long journey over here to see us - glad you enjoyed yourself and got to meet Claire. Intrigued that you would like to live over here though, I'd give quite a lot to live somewhere else!! Claire does a good job of selling Yorkshire though, and I would love to see it up there one day - not very likely though as I'm not good at travelling!!
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Post by trixiepony on Dec 24, 2017 1:24:33 GMT 1
Hello all! I wonder if this still works? Sorry it's been a while but I've been saving all my $ to come to the UK which we finally DID so haven't been buying many books. Did pick up an old book in a 2nd hand/antiquarian shop in Stow-on-the-Wold which was lovely: it's called 'Minda' and has a dustjacket and was written by Kathleen Mackenzie and published in 1953 [1959]. Sadly, someone's torn most of the illustrations out (by Maurice Tulloch). Got to FINALLY meet the very gorgeous Claire and if I wasn't a completely inadequate twit with a computer I could post a pic of us together. Trip of a lifetime: now have to work out how to emigrate (we have dual citizenship) asap keeping in mind we have 2 sons who I miss when they go out of an evening, Pete being 20 and at uni and Tom is only 16, I think it will be a few years. Don't know how I'll wait that long here. England is beautiful and the people, especially away from London, are lovely: good humoured, always up for a laugh and a chat- loved the North West and want to move to the Dales. Well done for managing the long journey over here to see us - glad you enjoyed yourself and got to meet Claire. Intrigued that you would like to live over here though, I'd give quite a lot to live somewhere else!! Claire does a good job of selling Yorkshire though, and I would love to see it up there one day - not very likely though as I'm not good at travelling!! Yes good luck with your plane Cally, Be fun if you do write your book maybe it can have sum off us in it. Do you have plans like age you will be writing for.
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