Rosie’s #BookReview Team #RBRT #Memoir MY LIFE IN HORSES by @JanRuthAuthor

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Today’s team review is from Georgia, she blogs here https://www.georgiarosebooks.com

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Georgia has been reading My Life In Horses by Jan Ruth

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My Life in Horses is a memoir and as such was hugely nostalgic for me. So many memories of my own life with horses resurfaced with its reading. Although I have to say that Jan Ruth was, for the most part, riding in considerably more beautiful parts of the country than I.

Jan Ruth’s riding was done at numerous riding stables, a sad fact being that over the years more and more of these have changed to become livery yards and it makes you wonder where people without access to horses in the future will be able to learn.

This relatively short book is full of stories that will bring a smile to your face and Jan Ruth’s telling of them keeps you reading as she builds in settings and atmosphere. If you love horses or have had any sort of background with horses, you will love this read. If you don’t then read it anyway, you might discover what you’ve been missing out on!

Book description

This is the memoir of an ordinary horse-girl. Fifty years of riding schools, borrowed horses and long lost dreamscapes. Fifty years of a passion which has seen considerable changes from the gradual demise of the public riding school, to the loss of access to safe bridleways. But My Life in Horses is not filled with sad nostalgia, it’s also a kaleidoscope of hope and inspiration. From the dappled sunlit lanes of Cheshire to the rugged mountains of North Wales, and beyond.

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9 thoughts on “Rosie’s #BookReview Team #RBRT #Memoir MY LIFE IN HORSES by @JanRuthAuthor”

  1. This sounds wonderful Linda. Humankind owes these elegant, intelligent, glorious creatures so much … and to be able to connect with them is a true gift. ‘How slight a sliver of shadow is man, when stood beside the hero that is horse!’

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  2. Thank you to both Georgia, and Rosie.
    I’ve never written memoir before and it all began as a single blog-post… I was surprised how much I remembered once I’d got the old photos out!

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  3. Another book about horses I’ve enjoyed is Allen Rizzi’s “The Horse Whisperers of Anaconda,” which also takes in how important horses were to World War I. I’d studied some about the war, but completely missed that fascinating part.

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