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The book received a positive review from Kirkus Reviews, which stated: "An impressive historical, terse, convincing, and affecting." [4] The book also met with criticism about its depiction of Native people and women, with one reviewer writing: "This is also a case of a truly badly written woman."
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...
Summary. Half Broke Horses is the story of Lily Casey Smith's life. Author Jeannette Walls, the granddaughter of Lily Casey Smith, wrote the book from Lily's perspective. As a child growing up on the frontier in Texas, Lily learns how to break horses. At the age of fifteen, she rode five hundred miles, alone, to get to her job as a teacher in a ...
A writer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted, of the original publication: "A beautiful volume, as far as typography goes, is Mr Will H. Ogilvie's 'Fair Girls and Gray Horses,' a collection of Australian poetry with the imprint of the 'Bulletin' Company. The real westward—that means anywhere from Menindie to the Gulf of Carpentaria and west of ...
Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes that took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: [1] Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep.
GV1831.H8 C3 2009. A Girl and Five Brave Horses is a memoir by Sonora Webster Carver published in 1961. [1] At the age of 20, Sonora Webster Carver joined William Frank Carver 's Wild West Show which featured diving horses and performed at Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Although Carver was blinded in a diving accident seven years later, she ...