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(More customer reviews)I picked up this book intending to read a story or two on the way to doing something else, but I kept reading story after story, a bit like eating chocolates. In this gem of a collection, the writers bring to life their encounters with the four legged wise ones known as horses, but more than that, the authors become again the girls they once were. We learn how the horses in their lives changed them, gave them courage, taught them lessons about trust, taught them about humans as well as horses. I began to fall in love with the horses one by one--Oliver and Pegasus, Sky and Cassanova, and more. I kept reading every story until I finished the book, each author shaping her narrative to fit her style and the story she had to tell. The book is expertly edited by Verna Dreisbach, whose own story inspired me to keep reading, and Jane Smiley wrote the forword. By the end, you'll be looking up trail rides on Google, or paging through your own photographs to find yourself long ago, a grin on your face, on a horse that changed your life.
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Why We Ride: Women Writers on the Horses in Their LivesWomen and their horses - a symbiotic relationship based on trust, camaraderie, friendship, and love. In Why We Ride, Verna Dreisbach collects the stories of women who ride, sharing their personal emotions and accounts of the most important animals in their lives. This collection of stories includes the heartfelt thoughts of a range of women - those who rode as children, those who spent their girlhood years dreaming of owning a pony, and those who have made a lifelong hobby or career out of riding. Each story reveals how horses have made an impact in the lives of these women. With a foreword by best-selling novelist Jane Smiley, Why We Ride offers a reflective view on the relationships between women and horses.
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