War Horse

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Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel… Geraldine Brooks' book, Horse, is a rich tapestry that combines horse racing, race relations, art, love, greed, ego, slavery, betrayal, and ambition into a memorable story.

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War Horse will also be available on Sky Store from 21 December – 20 January in the UK. War Horse will be available in cinemas internationally from 24 February 2021. Was a good story throughout mostly but then the author had to get preachy. I can only take so much beating over the head, before I lose interest. Horse" is a pretty mediocre novel that I would normally give three stars. There is nothing in this book that stands out as particularly excellent except maybe the research that went into it. Characters are bland, the plot is predictable, pacing is slow and dull. There is nothing particularly offensive about it, but there is nothing all that amazing about it either. This book is far more of a horse book than it is about race issues. A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. Look out for Morpurgo’s other war fiction including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow. It’s gratifying to break my hiatus with such a well-written book. These are some passages and my thoughts.

I’ve never been a horse-or pony girl….but I’m at least a part-time Geraldine Brooks girl. “People of the Book”, was one of my favorites. rescuing a painting of Lexington, an American thoroughbred, racehorse painting, from the trash. The man who painted Lexington, the artist, was named Thomas Scott. he wasn’t sorry to have seen what he’d seen, and learn what he learned. Not just the book learning. He felt larger in spirit. There was a space in his soul for the suffering of people. He resolved to take account of their lives, the heavy burdens they carried.” And yet, there are places where she stumbles. The 2019 storyline doesn't always flow for me; I didn't feel the chemistry between Theo and Jess. Jarret and Theo are too perfect; they are handsome, intelligent, unswerving in their ability to swallow their anger (never rage), and unfailingly patient. In one section enslaved teen Jarret, who has been protected by his father and his ability with horses, is forced to work in the cotton fields for the first time in his life and endures the whip to keep him working. Months later when he leaves the plantation he reflects:

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Although this novel is entitled “Horse” and is ostensibly about a magnificent historical horse and the prestigious horse races of the antebellum South. It is also about “race” itself. “Race” when used to define us simply by the pigmentation of our skin can be such a horrible word. The artist, Thomas Scott, made his name by painting Lexington, first as a young foal, then as he matured into his racing beauty. When the Civil War began and Scott enlisted, his reconnection with Jarret and Lexington was unexpected and dangerous. Overtime, her bedroom became a mini natural history Museum, filled with skeletons of lizards, mice, birds, displayed on plinth fashioned from salvaged wire spools or cotton reels. I love the use of words and language. I looked up 66 new words while reading Horse. Some of those words included: semaphores, deshabillement, ziggurat, macerating, plinths, zygomatic, pannier, ferruled, addlepated, turves, obduracy, riven, rowel, doggerel, jussive, subfusc, and many others.

A very informative book about race and slavery. The description of the relationship of horse and groom bringing about such success is outstanding. Also, the cost to buying freedom and the struggles to get there. The themes of slavery, discrimination, racism - then and now. The story is timeless. Anyone who has an affinity to animals will experience this connection as well as those who appreciate art in its many forms. Imaginative, and impeccably researched historical fiction, wonderfully written as well as skillfully structured, with characters to connect to and a story that moved me. This is pretty much everything I could ask for in a novel. All of this in a story about a horse, yet it is about much more than story a magnificent racing horse. It is about the injustice of slavery, selling people, like they sold horses, families separated and the racism that continues years later with tragic consequences.

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urn:oclc:843342613 Republisher_date 20130617063622 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20130614072437 Scanner scribe2.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) Jarret’s chapters vividly show the world of horse racing in the South. Brooks showcases her equine knowledge, and her love of horses shines through. I categorize her equine knowledge with author Jane Smiley. Smiley’s 2000 novel, “Horse Heaven” created a new world for me. While I learned to be intrigued with horse racing from “Horse Heaven”, I am now appalled at the industry after reading Brooks’ story. Brooks shows the ugly underbelly of equine abuse in the industry. After the 2023 horse racing year, and all the dead horses from the Triple Crown events, I see her point. I am definitely in the minority on this one! This has to be the best book that I've disliked so much! Horse by Geraldine Brooks was a well written novel that spanned three different time lines. Geraldine Brooks masterfully wove together the distinct characters in each time period to tell the story of one of America’s most notorious thoroughbred racing horse, Lexington. She combined real characters with imagined ones in a way that absolutely worked. Horse was based on Lexington’s true story. His life spanned from 1850 to 1875 but his legacy continued to be celebrated even after he departed this world through the foals he sired. Lexington became known for his agility, speed, stamina and faithfulness. I listened to the audiobook of Horse that was read by multiple narrators. The multiple narrators allowed each character to be distinguished easily and made the audiobook enjoyable to listen to. The author clearly spent a lot of time researching this book. However, the author had a hard time letting go some of her research, and the pacing seemed off. The paragraphs were too long, impacting the storytelling, and I wanted to ask the author to read an Andy Weir novel to get a better feel for how to move the plot forward.The book spans many generations, from the 1800's to current day, where interconnectedness seems serendipitous. As a reader, I rooted for those who had high ethics, integrity and work ethic...yet their efforts were often thwarted by those with different values. This novel is also about the relationship between Jarret and Lexington. Jarret’s love for this amazing animal. A love that is obviously reciprocated. It is about Jarret trying to buy his freedom, and escape from a world of slavery and oppression. It is about a country on the cusp of change.

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There are three timelines all linked together by a painting of "Lexington", the famous horse who the story revolves around. I got a lot more than I bargained for. Art, art history, science, behind the scenes looks at the unknown rooms and work of the Smithsonian, some of the early movers and shakers in the southern horse racing world in the mid 1850's, and let's throw in some modern social commentary while we're about it.It is set in parallel - the history of a horse and his slave groomer in the 1850’s and a painting that has survived the century to the present day & how the piece was discovered discarded. Personally, I enjoyed the portions from the Civil War era better than the more preachy modern-day sections. The modern-day sections might just be too recent. We all just lived through these events; they are fresh in our mind. Perhaps this book will age well. I try very hard not to be the kind of person who says that white people should not write from the POV of POC, but really, if this is the best you can do, white people should not write from the POV of POC. During the oldest sections, dealing with the horse Lexington's birth through to his final days, my favorite character was Thomas Scott. He was the frontier artist who painted several images of Lexington at various stages of his life, sometimes including his most important humans, such as Jarrett the groom/trainer. Scott's letter, written to his dear friend from the field hospital of the battlefield, is pitch perfect in its poignant descriptions of war wounds, both visible and invisible. Those elements of the book were, by far, the best parts of the book and if it had just encompassed them, the overall rating would have been at least two stars higher. As it is, though, the rest of the book is dragged down by its polemic agenda.