Books

I'm currently reading 'The Horse Whisperer' by Nicholas Evans and am enjoying it immensely at about half way through. I watched the movie a few years ago with Robert Redford in the lead role. My memory of it is not strong but I know I enjoyed it thoroughly, and the book, from which I assume the movie morphed, is grabbing me.

There's something very beautiful in the relationship between animals and humans, something that moves us all as a great connector between us and nature. I have never had much to do with horses but they are closely allied to man as are dogs and cats with whom I have had closer affinity.

The book I read immediately previous was 'All the Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr, a long novel of over 500 pages set in WW11 France and concerning a French blind girl and a German youth, whose life stories came together towards the end, most improbably I thought, but it made for a good read that I'd recommend. To me it portrayed the stupidity of that part of history while giving a glimpse of the humanity in the circumstance.

Both these books were given to me as gifts by Lib, who consistently through our time together has provided me with reading material which has greatly improved my understanding of the world and how it works and my part in it.