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Post by haffyfan on Jan 2, 2018 19:49:00 GMT 1
I have just read Sheena Wilkinson's Street Song, wasn't sure if i'd like it or not as not horsey but it was excellent. She is a fantastic author, must be one of, if not the best, current YA authors around. I've just received Free Falling, which has fantastic reviews, so that's next on my list. Sadly the other stuff is Historical by looks of it so not my cup of tea, but maybe she is the one to challenge that! Will see how this one goes first.
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Post by Claire on Jan 2, 2018 22:08:48 GMT 1
Yeah I agree one of the best authors around at the moment. You've reminded me I MUST read more of her stuff - and I like historical.
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 7, 2018 19:01:18 GMT 1
As for pony books, I got The Farthingale Find by Mary Gervaise for Christmas (with dustjacket), have read the first chapter. My reading has very much slowed down last year due to inertia/feeling demotivated and other things, but I now hope to read at least one chapter of two books every day. The setting is intriguing, the town of Garfield mentioned sounds like Guildford but then it mentions a coastal rock formation that sounds very like the Needles. That suggests the Isle of Wight. Also The Unsought Farm by Monica Edwards, because there happened to be an original hardback on eBay for £15 (no dustjacket but you can't have everything). I was a bit shocked to find out that she and her husband did some questionable things to Punchbowl Farm, which was only listed in 1960. They apparently turned the priest's hole into their bathroom, also took down and rebuilt a wall which showed an outline of the lost wing of the house.
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Post by foxglove on Mar 23, 2018 16:40:18 GMT 1
My partner got me a pony book from a charity shop, which was kind. Unfortunately it hardly had any pony content, and was instead a religious book, with the "plot" leading to every character accepting Jesus and joining a daily Bible study group! It was called The Wilde Riders, and I didn't take note of the author's name. Avoid.
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Post by Charlotte on Aug 15, 2021 14:57:20 GMT 1
I'm reading Land of Ponies by Marjorie M.Oliver. It seems quite interesting sofar, only just started it. It contains the dialect word nucker, which I can't find the meaning of (a grey mare nuckers over her foal on Dartmoor). But googling that led me to an interesting unrelated aside about Sussex Knucker holes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckerodddaysout.co.uk/knuckerholeAlso reading That Boarding School Girl by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. My copy is a beautiful hardback with painted boards and nice drawings, including a colour plate at the front. A 1925 inscription suggests it was a present to someone whose birthday was just after Christmas. It surprisingly still has the blurb introducing the book, on a small bit of paper inside it (would have been easy to lose). I kind of like how the illustrations are credited to Sybil Tawse, because the tawse was the notorious corporal punishment device in Scottish schools. The pages are so thick, like card! It's from 1925, so as is often the case with very old books, there are numerous quotations and references that I have absolutely no idea what they are. The story is good, but there's at least one passage that is not a continuity error as such, it just appears to make no sense, to me anyway! You occasionally get that in old books. And the protagonist, Nancy Caird, is supposed to have been expelled from boarding school after one term, not much time to get heavily steeped in the culture of it before she moves to the day school. She goes back to boarding school (St Brides) four years later, in another book which I also have but not read, that doesn't seem too realistic either.
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Post by Charlotte on Aug 15, 2021 15:03:19 GMT 1
As for pony books, I got The Farthingale Find by Mary Gervaise for Christmas (with dustjacket), have read the first chapter. My reading has very much slowed down last year due to inertia/feeling demotivated and other things, but I now hope to read at least one chapter of two books every day. The setting is intriguing, the town of Garfield mentioned sounds like Guildford but then it mentions a coastal rock formation that sounds very like the Needles. That suggests the Isle of Wight. Also The Unsought Farm by Monica Edwards, because there happened to be an original hardback on eBay for £15 (no dustjacket but you can't have everything). I was a bit shocked to find out that she and her husband did some questionable things to Punchbowl Farm, which was only listed in 1960. They apparently turned the priest's hole into their bathroom, also took down and rebuilt a wall which showed an outline of the lost wing of the house. Yes, it must presumably be Guildford in that book, Mary Gervaise lived there for a while.
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Post by Claire on Aug 16, 2021 16:14:03 GMT 1
The Dorita Fairlie Bruce book sounds a very nice edition. I love those with the real thick stiff pages.
I think the 'nucker' in Land of Ponies is supposed to be nicker. Possibly a typo or perhaps its a West Country version.
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Post by sarah on Dec 29, 2023 19:50:56 GMT 1
Reading "Ponies at the Edge of the World" - Catherine Munro and enjoying it. Just downloaded The Riding School Connemara Pony - Elaine Heney to read next.
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Post by susanb on Dec 29, 2023 22:37:30 GMT 1
Just finished Pony From the Farm by Mary Gervaise, which I enjoyed more than I expected. Much more horsey detail than the only other series entry I’d read, in which they basically cycled pas the ponies in the field to go in search of a cat 🙄
Trying to decide on next book…probably either a juvenile mystery (Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor by Darlene Geis) or Pony Trek by Hilda Boden. Decisions, decisions 😉
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Post by susanb on Dec 29, 2023 22:38:25 GMT 1
Just finished Pony From the Farm by Mary Gervaise, which I enjoyed more than I expected. Much more horsey detail than the only other series entry I’d read, in which they basically cycled past the ponies in the field to go in search of a cat 🙄 Trying to decide on next book…probably either a juvenile mystery (Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor by Darlene Geis) or Pony Trek by Hilda Boden. Decisions, decisions 😉
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Post by tintin on Dec 30, 2023 20:05:09 GMT 1
I am reading "McGovern's Horses" (Tim Elsen). I would strongly advise you not to...
Finished "Black Horse Nemo" beforehand. Very interesting in parts from a historical perspective (in parts) where the author covers his medical and military medical career, but, although Nemo was obviously a wonderful horse and master adored him, master can't really get it across. Too much of the book is pretty much a list of point to point triumphs.
Christmas has been very peaceful with my dad mainly reading and doing housework, both of which had got horribly behind hand. (and both to music)
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Post by Claire on Dec 30, 2023 21:54:01 GMT 1
Hi Tintin, glad to hear you had a peaceful holiday.
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