Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
Registered by valpete of Walnut Creek, California USA on 4/16/2009
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
This was an very enjoyable book - complex writing by a Scandinavian author. His descriptions of nature are exceptional; however, I was left with many questions about the characters. Tron, a 67-year old man reviews his life after meeting someone from his boyhood while retreating to a remote cabin in the woods.
I recommend this one.
I recommend this one.
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Sending it to Oliviapoolside as a RABCK to fulfill her Wishlist. I just finished it for my April book discussion group. Everyone liked it very much.
Enjoy!
Sending it to Oliviapoolside as a RABCK to fulfill her Wishlist. I just finished it for my April book discussion group. Everyone liked it very much.
Enjoy!
A happy surprise in my mailbox. Thank you so much, I am very pleased to have received this and am looking forward to reading it.
The writing was good but I was disappointed by the ending. I was expecting more; Entertainment Weekly review says "But the real trick is in the way everything finally, neatly converges into an emotional jolt" Somehow I interpreted that to mean that all the threads of the story would be tied together and we would have a revelation. No revelation in the ending, just a sad remembrance, a sad question.
The story is about a man, remembering when he was a boy and in particular the summer he was 15. While the descriptions were so seamless that I really didn't notice them as such, just absorbed them, the story was slow moving and very sad.
The story is about a man, remembering when he was a boy and in particular the summer he was 15. While the descriptions were so seamless that I really didn't notice them as such, just absorbed them, the story was slow moving and very sad.
I am putting this book into the Alphabet VBB.
This was picked by raralovestoread in the Alphabet VBB. It is on its way to her now.
I received this book today as part of greenbadger's Alphabet VBB. Thanks for sharing, oliviapoolside!
I enjoyed this story but felt the ending was rather abrupt. I guess I expected the ending to be in the present and not when he was a teenager. So I felt a bit let down by it.
I am mailing this book as part of iwillrejoice's ABC Authors Book Ring - US version - Letter P.
taking from the "P" authors bookring. cover looks familiar, not sure why. Adding to the ABC TBR stash
Set in Norway, the book jumps back and forth between present day when Trond, now a 67yo widower moves into the boonies where he had lived with his father during the summers as a teen in the 1940s. Jumps back and forth, without warning, but was good at keeping you guessing. The title refers to a summer prank of really stealing horses, as well as a code word during the war when his father was a courier with info to Swedish recipients when Norway was occupied.
Journal Entry 12 by 
NancyNova
at United States Post Office - 1586 Sumneytown Pike in Kulpsville, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, February 6, 2021
NancyNova at United States Post Office - 1586 Sumneytown Pike in Kulpsville, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, February 6, 2021
Released 3 yrs ago (2/6/2021 UTC) at United States Post Office - 1586 Sumneytown Pike in Kulpsville, Pennsylvania USA
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Thanks and happy reading!
Thanks and happy reading!
