Thank you so much @Janeway ! I’m working on number sixth, the last of the series, and hopefully will have it out by fall 2019 if not earlier.
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Darn!
Neither Impractical Horsewoman’s nor Natalie Keller Reinert’s series are available in my Regional Library Catalogue :(:concern:
Off I go to put in my request for them!
Also just jumping in quickly to veer off-course for a minute to say that, since Tami Hoag was mentioned earlier, I just read her newest book The Boy yesterday, and while not a mention of horses anwhere, it’s a very, very good book!
Okay back on course to the original subject
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My barn mate and I enjoyed the series by Karen McGoldrick, starting with the Dressage Chronicles. Sure, a little far fetched, but who reads to relive the same barn drama we live on a daily basis?
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1937565653/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
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Such a wonderful thread!
My recent sci-fi/fantasy discover are these books (I picked the first one up for 50 cents at a used book sale because it had a horse on the cover lol). Lots of riding, magic horses, quite well written, good narrator/main character:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/…er-books-will/
This one, however, The Sport of Kings I was disappointed with as a “horse book.” It’s really more of a southern gothic (it’s really dark), and the cover and the copy copy are misleading, as it has little to do with horse racing.
More in the fantasy vein, I absolutely love The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater. Also in fantasy, Robin McKinley’s books The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown have a strong female character and horses.
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So glad to be reminded of this author. Her writing about horses is perceptive, heart felt and expert. One of the best.
I’m not sure this is an adult book, but it certainly is one of my all time favorites- the original heart breaker- Black Beauty.
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SQUEEEEE!!! I absolutely LOVE your books! I have read them all! When are you coming out with a new one???
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The Lady by Anne McCaffrey. I wish she’d written more like this… I wasn’t ever a fan of her fantasy books, but this is a great book. There are a few horse related oopses but they are easy to forgive.
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@Jeepgirl311 Thank you so much! Reading that made my night!
I’m 23,000 words (give or take) into the first draft of book 6, Courage to the Sticking Place. So about halfway there! Hopefully, I will have it in readers’ hands by the fall!
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Awesome! So I have to ask, are you a huge music fan? Also, I loved learning about the Mongol Derby!
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Love the title, and the reference! Looking forward to it.
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@Jeepgirl311 I unfortunately don’t have the skills as a rider to compete in the Mongolian Derby myself, but the experience of writing Crawling Between Heaven and Earth was life-changing in its own way. I’m so grateful for the firsthand accounts of people who did ride in the Derby, particularly the nutters who do the whole thing with GoPros strapped to their heads and upload video testimony of all their thrills and spills (as well as the compassion of the Mongolian people helping everybody out).
@McGurk This one takes us back to hunterland, much like Stars Hide Your Fires. I don’t know why, but there is something about Macbeth and that world which seems to resonate in my mind! Or Simon’s at least.
Fox hunting in space-my day is made! They will be on order before the sun sets-thanks for the tip!
Gone away at warp speed?
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It’s an older book, but Jane McIlvane McCleary’s “A Portion for Foxes.” Fox hunting/steepelchasing/affairs (;0)), etc. She also wrote the non-fiction “A Will to Win,” about Jay Trump, multiple-Maryland Hunt Cup winner and first American-bred, American trained and American ridden winner of the Grand National at Aintree in 1965.
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And, of course, young adult horse books like Cammie’s Choice and Cintra’s Challenge and Copper’s Chance and Carrie’s Conunudrum (ok, I made that last one up).
People in the know love to identify the real-life inspirations for A Portion for Foxes, as I understand it. It is a good read, for sure.
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Well, these are kid’s books, but I’m sure you’d all enjoy them (or already know of them). Alice S. O’Connell’s “Pamela and the Blue Mare,” and the “Blue Mare at the Olympic Trials.” You could train a horse based on the first book, and the illustrations by Paul Brown are lovely - which illustrations make the books rare and hideously expensive. I got the first one cheaply at a used book store that probably didn’t realize what they had. The second one cost me $95 on line, and that was a bargain going by other prices on it I see. I’ve seen mint condition ones in the $400 range. Libraries still might have copies.
Has anyone mentioned Lyndon Stacey yet? So fun…if I’m remembering correctly, eventers as a backdrop…
http://www.lyndon-stacey.com/books/horse-thrillers
I think you’re probably referring to the Standardbred/Saddlebred confusion? ROFLOL
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Some eventing, some horse racing a la Dick Francis. I think it is (John?) Francome, another former jockey who has a series of horse racing mysteries also.
Yes, that one! There may have been one or two other things that I thought were NQR, but that is the one that comes to mind every time.
