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I thought it would be more about actual horses but it was a good book.

Finding A Way

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Martha Lessen leaves a brutal home to find her way back to the romantic old West of pulp fiction, pre-1917 style. Martha ends up in a small remote valley of north western Oregon at the beginning of WWI when the young men of the country side have entered the Army to make the world safe for democracy. THE HEART OF HORSES is about her technique, skill, and gift for breaking horses with vivid factual accounts. But more importantly the story is about a young woman discovering herself and the world around her, during a time of war and hardship for those who remained on the land. It is the story of an English woman married to a second generation German, a woman who carries her husband through a bout with Cancer when there is no hope, a story of a mother facing old age with her children gone, two sisters who maintain their ranch alone, and a woman whose husband is an alcoholic. These are all woman who created the heritage we have today and in many cases they did it alone. It is not a book to be dismissed as being just about horses. Writing as a Small BusinessSins of the Fathers: A Brewster County NovelNatchez Above The River: A Family's Survival In The Civil War

DID NOT WANT THE BOOK TO END	Customer Rating:
I STIMBLED UPON THIS BOOK BY ACCIDENT. WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE.MOLLY GLOSS MAY NOT BE THE MOST POLISHED WRITER BUT SHE CAN TELL A HEARTWARMING STORY.WHEN I FINISHED THE BOOK THE CHARACTERS FELT LIKE OLD FRIENDSTHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW EVEN BETTER.

Lovely and quiet

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This slowly unwinding, gentle story, carefully and lovingly told, is reminiscent of both Owen Wister's The Virginian and Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years. It was a pleasure becoming acquainted with the various characters, their thoughts and hopes and dreams. It was a pleasure to witness the budding romance between Henry and Martha, how shy they both were, how tender and sweet. I loved the history of the place and time, and I appreciated the author's ability to draw me into the story one layer at a time. Books that I have read that were written during that era about that era are in that same style, so it was really nice to read a contemporary author who writes about that era in that era's gentle style. This is a good book for a rainy day, get a piece of cake and a cup of coffee, go wrap yourself in an afghan and get cozy in your favorite armchair, and then savor this story s-l-o-w-l-y.

Take the ride	Customer Rating:
If you added equal measures of John Steinbeck and Willa Cather, you would have something close to the tone of this affecting novel.It is the author's determined sense of understatement that lends this book its' power and authentic sense of Western history.I found myself thinking about its' characters for weeks after I turned the last page.