happy
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Post by happy on Feb 6, 2009 11:04:43 GMT 1
Hi All
I know I have seen this thread before but I thought I would start a new one.
I have just read
- A horse called September (which I hadnt read since I was 13) I still love it so so much
- Blind Beauty - Good book
-A Heartland book - Easy Read
Currently curled up on sofa with my 2 year old (nursery closed an stuck so cant get to work) and "Clear Round" by Pamela McGreggor Morris. Seems a nice book only 3 pages in.
Hope you are all surviving the snow.
xxx ;D
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Post by zoe on Feb 6, 2009 16:32:49 GMT 1
Good idea Happy, I've just read
Plenty of Ponies - it was quite good and I can't believe we are all struggling with a few inches of snow when in this book they have feet of the white stuff!
I've also just read a day to go hunting which I really enjoyed and Snow Cloud Stallion which I liked too. With the kids off school I've got more time to read this week especially as they are kept amused with the snow - I just wait for them to come in and get changed, my main job seems to be drying clothes.(Have to admit to playing in the snow a bit too!)
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Post by haffyfan on Feb 6, 2009 20:04:08 GMT 1
Just finishing the last Luke Cannon book Decision Day For The Dapple Grey having read the rest of the series many years ago when they came out, then I have already got Horses and Heather out to start later.
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Post by snowfilly on Feb 6, 2009 21:18:49 GMT 1
Luke Cannon!! Now there's a name from the past. Read Black Mare and Piebald Princess about 7 years ago, I think, and never found the others. Can you remember the 3rd title, so's I can go waste money on eBay again?
Konstanze, can't remember the author's name; Luke was the hero. Very British books, with Luke as a young show jumper trying to make his mark in BSJA. Really can't remember the plots, although I recall Luke's palomino stallion!
I had pbs; can't imagine they'd be expensive. Hope that helps.
Oh, I've been reading Black Beauty to a friend's daughter - nothing wrong with the classics. Up to Birtwick park now, just met Ginger. It breaks my heart to know the ending.
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Post by haffyfan on Feb 6, 2009 21:27:18 GMT 1
Snowfilly I think Black mare is no 3...Chestnut Chase is the other one. Dapple Grey cost me a fiver on Amazon recently (only 1 I never had) which was the cheapest copy I could find but the others were all on there for 1p (typically).
They are mysteries Konstanze...think Kit Hunter/Linda Craig/Nancy Drew and your not far off. Nigel Robinson is the author.
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Post by sarah on Feb 7, 2009 20:43:30 GMT 1
I've just read The Horse Trap (Patsey Gray) and The Sweet Running FIlly (SusanB recommended this one somewhere) and really liked them both.
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Post by sarah on Feb 8, 2009 13:51:15 GMT 1
Barbara Van Tuyl is author of The Sweet Running Filly.
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Post by Claire on Feb 8, 2009 15:30:39 GMT 1
I am actually reading a non pony book at the mo. All my pony ones are still packed away. But picked up a couple of Noel Streatfield ones in Oxfam yesterday when having a break from unpacking and am reading Curtain Up. I love her books. Any else like them?
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Post by susanb on Feb 8, 2009 21:35:51 GMT 1
Konstanze/Sarah...Sweet Running Filly was co-authored by Barbara van Tuyl and Pat Johnson...it's a mystery, a very good one I thought. Claire....I've liked a lot of Noel Streatfeild books, and loved a few....I've got Circus Shoes (UK title The Circus is Coming) and Family at Caldicott Place (UK title Caldicott Place) lurking in my tbr pile .... did you know of this great site dedicated to her works? www.whitegauntlet.com.au/noelstreatfeild/I've found it very useful, especially to make sure I'm not buying the same book twice, as it gives UK/US title variations! If you enjoy Streatfeild, I'd also recommend US author Elizabeth Enright...her works all had UK printings...the Melandy quartet were great, especially the first two: the four books were The Saturdays, The Four Storey Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb for Two: a Melandy Maze, and the Gone Away pair, which were Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away. Give Thimble Summer a miss, it's terribly dull. Oddly enough, I came to Enright by way of Streatfeild...I found a UK printing of The Four Storey Mistake at a used bookstore, and the blurb on it by Streatfeild recommending Enright prompted me to buy it!
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Post by beswickcollector on Feb 9, 2009 14:32:39 GMT 1
I have just finished 'We Started a Riding Club' by Catherine Harris. It is a lovely traditional pony book with the plot exactly as the name suggests. The book is full of brilliant illustrations by Maurice Tulloch.I cannot remember if I read it as a child but I will try more of her books. It was a trip down Memory Lane.
I have just started reading a novel my eldest daughter bought me for Christmas - Folly by Alan Titchmarsh. Not a pony book you may think but the story weaves around a painting by my favourite and local horse artist - Alfred Munnings.
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Post by sarah on Feb 13, 2009 20:11:11 GMT 1
Re - the Suzanne Wilding books I vaguely remember SusanB saying they were unusual in that they were all written for different age groups.
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Post by cally on Feb 15, 2009 0:01:33 GMT 1
I'm just about to finish CP-T's The Impossible Horse & I'm either going to reread The Ten Pound Pony or something new- if I go book hunting, and if I can find anything. I think I've exhausted all of Canberra's 2nd hand book shops- there aren't all that many and a couple are closing down, which is terribly boring.
Impossible Horse is ok- I prefer books with younger central characters simply because I loathe 'romance' stories.
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Post by zoe on Feb 16, 2009 21:52:29 GMT 1
I was pleasantly surprised today, I read Perfect Timing by Samantha Alexander and, although not up with the older pony books it made quite an enjoyable, easy read.
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Post by beswickcollector on Feb 24, 2009 21:00:58 GMT 1
I have just finished reading Sheltie the shetland Pony by Allen Seaby. It is just like his other books but fortunately no fatal accidents in this one. Sheltie visits Richmond Castle, Yorkshire in her travels. I have just started reading Phantom Horse. I know this is one of the most common pony books about but I waited for a copy with the green DJ and rearing horse by Sheila Rose. Did CPT write this after a holiday in America? In 1955 few people in the UK had a washing machine. They had not heard of dishwashers or tea bags!
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Post by Claire on Feb 24, 2009 21:09:53 GMT 1
Havent read that one beswickcollector altho would like to now you mention Richmond Castle - I can see it from the loo in my new house! ;D
Am in the process of reading Dolphin Summer by Monica Edwards. More when I have finished but I am loving it.
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Post by beswickcollector on Feb 25, 2009 20:08:24 GMT 1
Seaby does not say much about Richmmond Castle in Sheltie but he dislikes Durham and Nottingham. He thought they were dirty mining towns which they could have been in the 20s and 30s. I visited Richmond a couple of years ago and thought the walk round the castle a bit scary, there was a huge drop on one side with no safety rail. Hope you like heights Claire!
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Post by kunuma on Feb 25, 2009 20:16:19 GMT 1
I don't know if i dare admit what I am reading at the moment. Reading the Pony Club series got me in the mood for a series (books are too short) so I reread the Jinny series, and now, drum roll, I just finished rereading the Saddle Club books!! OK I know, I know!! But I just love series!! I have got a few missing (any booksellers out there??) but still got a big heap!! Then I finished off with the Pine Hollow Series, any review for those would be short - don't ! Now I am on a lovely old one with nice pencil sketches called "And the Ponies loved it too" Just all about messing about with ponies, not an adventure in sight - great! Although they do say tootle pip rather a lot!
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Post by kunuma on Feb 25, 2009 20:18:37 GMT 1
Have just read the last posts more accurately, as I was under the impression for a while that Claire was renting a castle with a loo in it! ;D Must work out how to make the print on the screen bigger!
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Post by sarah on Feb 25, 2009 20:48:16 GMT 1
Just read Jill's Gymkhana. Trying to decide what to read next as haven't got the entire Jill series to hand.
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Post by Claire on Feb 26, 2009 1:17:33 GMT 1
ROTFL I cant stop giggling over the castle with a loo in it ;D ;D ;D You need some stronger specs kunuma ;D
Beswickcollector I LOVE that walk round the castle I do it nearly everyday its got the best views in the town. I dont mind heights tho! I love Durham too which is near my old home town. Its a beautiful cathedral city and not a mining town, tho lots of the villages around it are.
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Post by sarah on Feb 27, 2009 18:47:57 GMT 1
In middle of Ride Across the Ocean - Zita White - really enjoying it.
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happy
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Post by happy on Feb 27, 2009 19:13:32 GMT 1
Hi
I am just working my way though the Jill books.... Just starting book 5 tonight. I think I will have a break before reading the other ones so going to start on "The Silver Bridle""
Xx
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Post by Buster on Feb 27, 2009 19:58:40 GMT 1
Well im reading the Twilight books (Should I admit that??) Its got to be said- they are amazing and im hooked! Im on the 3rd one atm!
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Post by Claire on Feb 27, 2009 22:11:00 GMT 1
Just read If I Could Ride by Caroline Akrill for the first time. Its very funny but too short and it ends a bit abruptly considering its the last of the series. Wonder if she was going to write more. I wish she had as I want to know what happens next!
Yes I have finished Dolphin Summer which was fab too, tho not much horse content in it. An excellent story on the theme of humans trying to exploit wild animals, and the almost conflicting theme of the bond which can form between a sympathetic understanding human and a wild animal. Quite similar to The Wild One altho not quite as outstanding as that one. Also an extremely good portrayal of young love, certainly not cloying enough to make you reach for the sick bucket ;D
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Post by susanb on Feb 27, 2009 22:50:43 GMT 1
Claire....I felt that about If I Could Ride as well....but I'm not sure it is the last book in the trilogy.....publication dates in various copies seem to be different (printer's error?) and some have I'd Rather Not Gallop - 1975, If I Could Ride - 1976, Caroline Canters Home - 1977. My copies have Caroline Canters Home - 1977 and If I Could Ride - 1979, which would make it the last book. As they were her first three books, and she wrote two more trilogies and one stand alone, it seems odd that she didn't go on and finish the Showing saga if she meant to. I'd heard she runs a hotel in Wales now...erm....maybe some enterprising ponymadbooklover could give her a call or drop her a line and get the official verdict straight from (you'll forgive the pun) the horse's mouth on the book order :-) www.plas-maenan-hotel.co.uk/contact.html
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Post by Claire on Feb 27, 2009 23:23:20 GMT 1
The actual publishing dates are different to the reading/chronological order which is: 1. Caroline Canters Home 2. Id Rather Not Gallop 3. If I Could Ride Not sure why the books were published in a different order, we have discussed this before and come to no conclusion!
I find these books were a sort of protoype for the Eventing trilogy which is a bit more heavyweight. Carolines Aunt and cousins are similar to the Fanes in their eccentricity and both Caroline and Elaine have to make a choice about whether to break out on their own or not. Also Elaine turns her back on her love interest as does Caroline at the end of If I Could Ride. In fact I find the same themes run thru all her books (and I discuss this in detail in my review of The Silver Bridle if anyone remotely interested)
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Post by cally on Feb 28, 2009 5:55:23 GMT 1
I am just about to embark on Silver Eagle Riding School which is great 'cos I'm suffering (as well as everyone else in the family) from Auntie Flow's regular monthly visit & need a pleasant mood-lifting distraction.
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Post by trixiepony on Feb 28, 2009 12:31:27 GMT 1
I'm happy reading sum christian pony books I got from church Saturday. Thay where free to good home so I went throw and fond sum pony books. I have Eagle's Wings and Shadow Over San Mateo by Lauraine Snelling. The Reins of Danger by Rebecca Price Janney. And Smoke Screen Secret by Marianne Hering.
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Post by Claire on Feb 28, 2009 20:20:28 GMT 1
Read a couple of Lauraine Snellings, the High Hurdle series tho not Golden Filly. They're OK. Havent heard of the other ones.
Am reading a James Patterson murder potboiler at the mo!
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Post by kunuma on Mar 1, 2009 22:08:58 GMT 1
Oh I like James Patterson! There's another bloke like him and I had half a dozen by him I really enjoyed, can't remember his name though, and I just gave them all to a friend, and then they will be off to the charity shop!They were sort of adventure, murder, spies things, but well written!
I am looking for any more by someone called Kelley Armstrong - I only have one of hers so far, Bitten, but I liked it - anyone got another for sale??
I'm in a very Cornish phase at the moment, re reading my Du Maurier books, starting with Jamaica Inn, set in my favourite place on earth of course! Followed by Rebecca of course!
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