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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061241086
ISBN: 0061241083
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Sales Rank: 13667
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.
Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables—and where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl . . . and in the seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch.
But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter her fragile world.
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- A huge disappointmentI loved Water for Elephants-- a compelling story with a F. Scott Fitzgerald-like feel to it, so we picked Riding Lessons for our book club. It was lite chick-lit at its most trite and contrived. The main character is completely self-absorbed and unsympathetic; she creates all the misery in her life, and somehow we're expected to care about it. The chapter in which she tries to cook a meal but fails miserably was unreadable. Come on, how many times has that device been used? The ending was predictable ... Read More
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- Water for Elephants loverI loved Water for Elephants, so was interested in reading Sara Gruen's other books. Riding Lessons is a very wonderful story, with delightful characters that you fall in love with. I cannot rate it 5-star because the connection didn't hit all the way home for me. I'm not a horse person, so I didn't feel the connect other horse people must feel while reading this book. Some horse terms were thrown around that I wasn't familiar with, making me feel like I was peeking into an unfamiliar life. But other than that ... Read More
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- PainfulSara Gruen has invented a character so inadequate, insensitive and incompetent, that it defies credulity to accept that this 'heroine' has enough insight to narrate a first person account of her ridiculously tenuous hold on reality. She does not cook or clean or parent her daughter or help her mother care for her desperately ill father. She takes on the management of the stable business, but does not even get to know her employees. She expects sympathy from her audience, as she whines or screams through page after ... Read More
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- Whine and CheeseSkeleton of the plot: The opening scene is an eloquent and exciting description of AnneMarie Zimmer, a nineteen year old girl, and her magnificent striped horse Harry, about to win a prestigious equestrian event. Disaster results, and the story resumes almost two decades later. AnneMarie returns to her family's equestrian center, where her father is dying.
There is no question that Sarah Gruen can write, and write entrancingly well. In the case of Riding Lessons, the question is how much stable ... Read More
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- The power of a healing horseFor those of us familiar with horses we know they can be both a dangerous and healing animal, all rolled up in one package. This book shows us how the main character's life is wrapped in many horses and how she is both harmed (emotionally and physically) then heals from the horses around her later in her life. In a sense we have probably all been there with a horse.
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