Chosen by a Horse: a memoir
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- ISBN13: 9781569474198
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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“Proof that like for another animal can alone make one human and humane: wit and crushing sadness chasing each additional all across the page; intelligence and bravery and perfect literary pitch… Damn fantastic.”—Melissa Holbrook Pierson, leader of Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals; Women, a Passion
“A bold and sensitive memoir of what it means to open one’s heart to like… A magnificent read.”—Adele von Rust McCormick, Ph.D and Marlena Deborah McCormick, PhD, authors of Horses and the Mystical Path; Horse Sense and the Human Heart
“A triumph for all spirits.”—Laura Shaine Cunningham, leader of A Place in the Country
“Should rank with the fantastic animal tales.”—Ann Arensberg, leader of Incubus
“Two kindred spirits find each additional in this perfectly written memoir about the human-animal bond.”—Temple Grandin, leader of Animals in Translation
When she agrees to take on the care of one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards’s hard life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced; and suffered from alcoholism. While Susan is trying to capture the horse assigned to her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan’s horse trailer of her own volition. Susan already owns one mare and two geldings—the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopelessly romantic Hotshot—but it is with Lay Me Down that she forges a special, healing relationship that alters her life.
Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for everyone who has ever lost a loved one.
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This will make a number of people frustrated, but I wanted to shout “grow up” to the immature woman at the center of this book. Wealth, privilege and all the trappings — and an nearly having no effect life. I venture that many may find the book of interest. I did only mildly and with slight curiosity to how the leader would end. If you want to read something of value, I recommend substituting “Kite Runner” or additional books with more enduring value to the reader.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I selected up this book, excited it was about my passion: horses. We agreed to read it during our office book club (we are a global publisher’s office, so we’ve gone through our share of literature). The day of the meeting everyone was silent. I reflect they were worried of offending me, since I like horses. I spoke up first. “I despised it. It was dull, had nothing to do with her relationship with her horse (if she even had a relationship at all). All she did was whine about her life.” Everyone sighed, and ongoing pouring out their thoughts. They agreed with me. They thought it was terrible writing, the characters were in no way engaging, and was there even a relationship with the horse?
This has to be the least engaging book I’ve ever read. The leader doesn’t heal at the end, like she claims to have. There is no evidence of it, and there is no evidence that the horse even helped her heal. I really felt like yelling at the leader throughout the book, “get over yourself!” And while I feel very sorry for the hardships she’s been through in her life, the whole book was one huge whining-fest.
Please, do not waste your money. There are many more valuable literature out there that are really about the bonds between a woman and her horse, but this is not one of them. The leader digs herself deeper into a hole that ongoing in the beginning of her life, and tells the tale in writing at a 7th grade level. Who did she know at the publisher’s office to become an leader?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a very appealing tale, but as my daughter read it she disagreed with some of the morals demonstrated in the book. There are several instances of terrible language. The main character had a hard life before and after divorce. She finds new like, but it is with a married man who is himself going through hard times. She buys lingerie with the intention of having a premarital affair. My daughter is nearly 17 and likes horse books, but stopped reading at chapter 11.
This book is certainly not written from a Christian perspective and not for young adults.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
As a horse owner and teacher it’s clear all the way through this book that the leader doesn’t know anything about horses. Everything about her views on horses is filtered by her very needy, self-centered life. She place that poor horse through far too much suffering because she couldn’t bring herself to losing the horse. It was all about her, not the horse. If you’re looking for a real-world perspective on horses and their relationships with humans, don’t look here.
Everything in this book in really nothing more than the whinings of a self-centered person whose life is really messed up and ends up just as messed up as she starts out. I’m not unsympathetic to some of the events in her life that caused her pain. And I have first hand experience how a horse changed my life and was essentially my best friend during a very tough period of my life. But I would never consider burdening others by writing a book that was all about me; my pain, my insecurities, my egocentricity, my inability to learn from my past mistakes, my unwillingness to get over myself and start thinking about others for once in my life.
I’m astounded that so many people have written favorable reviews on this book. I can only conclude that misery likes company. The answer to getting through and past life’s difficulty is not establish in commiserating with others who have tales similar to yours and who are still stuck (like this leader obviously is). It’s better establish in tales of people who have learned from their suffering and establish a way out of their self pity and depression.
If you’re looking for hope, you won’t find it in this book.
Perhaps one day the leader will find real joy and balance in life and write a sequel about that. I hope so. Then, she will have a book to offer the world that is of value.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Not that appealing. It was slow and lacked depth. Do not waste your money. Borrow from the library.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5