She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul

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Summary: She Doesn't fly
Review: I am not a "horse person" and only read this book because it was selected by my book club. I found it of little interest and was unable to make any connection with the author and her intimate relationship with horses. The style of inserting excerpts from literature, poetry etc in the middle of the text was distracting and made the text disjointed. Perhaps if one is a horse "nut" it would be of some interest but personally I couldn't relate and found all this emotional and spiritual attachment to horses quite annoying.

Rating:
Summary: She Doesn't fly
Review: I am not a "horse person" and only read this book because it was selected by my book club. I found it of little interest and was unable to make any connection with the author and her intimate relationship with horses. The style of inserting excerpts from literature, poetry etc in the middle of the text was distracting and made the text disjointed. Perhaps if one is a horse "nut" it would be of some interest but personally I couldn't relate and found all this emotional and spiritual attachment to horses quite annoying.

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Summary: Expensive book,worthless reading
Review: I fell for the title of this book, I know the feeling! I MUST have bought it because of the title. I am a horsewoman. I have been all my life. I have enjoyed Mary's informational horse books but, I am am sorry to say this was a waste of my time. I kept reading it waiting for it to [draw] me in like the title did that never happened. I considered passing it to a horsey friend and instead gave it to the Goodwill.

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Summary: What a wonderful book!!!!!!!!!
Review: In reading "She Flies Without Wings", being a horselover, and owner, and a woman, the author did a wonderful job in descriptions and feelings. I kept reading paragraphs over and over again, as it is like poetry. Very poetic, very true in relating to our magnificant, graceful, powerful, beasts. I do not want to part with my book, so I have ordered this book for my horseloving women friends. It is a book one can read over and over again, and still enjoy. I envy the first time one reads "She Flies Without Wings,"; I was flying and without wings! Janie Lester

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Summary: Simply Wonderful
Review: This lyric, profound, spiritual book makes the heart of all horsepeople, female or male, truly fly without wings. You and your horse may gallop through the canyons of Wyoming or the parks of Manhattan, Midkiff's prose will enhance your journey.

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Summary: a wonderful read
Review: This was a truly delightful read. I have also read Midkiff's Fitness Performance and the Female Equestrian (also a good book to read), but this book really explores the connection between women and horses. It is obvious that she really loves horses. A good book to curl up with.

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Summary: a wonderful read
Review: This was a truly delightful read. I have also read Midkiff's Fitness Performance and the Female Equestrian (also a good book to read), but this book really explores the connection between women and horses. It is obvious that she really loves horses. A good book to curl up with.

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Summary: A Blessing of a Book!
Review: With uncanny insight and wisdom Ms.Midkiff has put eloquently into words the very emotions I have experienced my past 25 years with horses. This book has touched me and made me even more aware of the gifts I receive on a daily basis. As she so simply and profoundly states in this book - "When I ride [my mare] her unity with the outside world is so absolute that I have no choice but to follow her into it. I must stop thinking about deadlines and the grocery list... because they have no place the the world my equine guide is showing me. I can't help but open my eyes to what she sees and my ears to what she hears. I note the flicker of a cottontail disappearing into the brush ahead and hear the call of the meadowlark before spotting it. I swim in her quiet." Bravo, Ms. Midkiff! Though we have never met I am certain we are of the same herd. Thank you for such an inspiring read!