Mary D. Midkiff

I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this book. It's beautifully written, but balances a thin line; the gorgeous metaphors that almost erase the species boundary between human and horse enrich the language, but also sometimes grew to be a bit more than I could readily stomach. It is no doubt a touching work, though, and especially the later chapters tugged on my heartstrings as it reminded me of my late companion, who might have been an "ugly" horse but who forever will be the best horse I ever knew. I generally reject any notion of female and male thinking (or the usefullness of categorizing humanity into male and female at all), but read as an account of personal experiences and growth, I think this book is well worth reading, and I will be recommending it to my horse-loving best friend in short order.… (mehr)