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Summary: If you're new to thoroughbreds - this is where you start!!!
Review: I won't go on a long diatribe. I think the previous reviewers have said what I would have said. In a word - this book is excellent. It's well researched and Nan Mooney clearly has a passion for the topic which means everything when you're writing. There are no dull filler chapters at all. The intertwined story of Mae Mae is a hoot - she is the kind of grandmother we all would like to have as our own.In sum - if you are new to the world of thoroughbreds and racing this is the book to start with. By the time you are through, you will appreciate the history and understand the passion and love of thoroughbreds.
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Summary: Avoid this book
Review: Ms. Mooney's engaging writing style brings the world of horse racing magically alive. A lover of horses and horse racing since she was a child (thanks to her spectacular grandmother, whose story is woven throughout the book), Ms. Mooney's passion for the sport is infectious. I especially liked the thorough and entertaining way she covered the history of the sport. I'm looking forward to reading more from her; that her next work will immensely please seems to be a safe bet.
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Summary: Magical...
Review: Ms. Mooney's engaging writing style brings the world of horse racing magically alive. A lover of horses and horse racing since she was a child (thanks to her spectacular grandmother, whose story is woven throughout the book), Ms. Mooney's passion for the sport is infectious. I especially liked the thorough and entertaining way she covered the history of the sport. I'm looking forward to reading more from her; that her next work will immensely please seems to be a safe bet.
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Summary: Amorous and Intriguing
Review: Nan Mooney's "My Racing Heart" provides a box seat view into the world of horse racing. It is an amorous tale of a woman and her grandmother's passions for Thoroughbred horses. It is an intriguing story, full of history and honesty. After reading the book I have developed a respect and an understanding for the Thoroughbred horse racing world that I had never had before!
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Summary: Not bad.
Review: Nan Mooney, My Racing Heart (Harper, 2002) Nan Mooney loves horses. Specifically, Thoroughbreds, the ones who hit the track, dust it up with six to twelve of their closest friends, and make humans gape in awe at the process. This odd amalgam of personal-memoir-cum-treatise-on-track-life is not an unfamiliar breed to the horse fan; the measuring stick against which all such books are brought is Bill Barich's stunning Laughing in the Hills. I'm sure one day, another book that good in that genre will arrive. While My Racing Heart has its good points, to be simple about it, this ain't it. Where Barich succeeds as so many others (Michael Klein, Mooney, Liz Mitchell, and many others) fail is in his ability to take two different things that have inherently different paces and make them merge together into one book whose readability is consistent across chapters on differing subjects (in Barich's case, handicapping the races at Golden Gate while dealing with his mother's cancer). He meshes the two in such a way that, despite being parallel narratives happening a country apart from one another, the whole thing flows. Seamless, like an egg, as Stephen King once said. In Mooney's case the two main threads are a basic nuts-and-bolts look at the Thoroughbred industry from someone with enough clout to get inside the lines but not enough cynicism to keep pumping out the same old platitudes and a memoir about her grandmother, who introduced her to horse racing at an age tender enough that I suspect her parents weren't very happy. Either of these two things on their own would have stood as a book in itself; the slow, meandering passages about her grandmother and how the two of them interacted and the snappy, sometimes sarcastic looks at track life. It is when the two are entwined with one another that things break down to the extent they do, with the reader finding himself transported with no warning from the high of making friends with a Kentucky Derby contender to a lazy meditation on what life must have been like in the early twenties in Alaska. Not to say it isn't worth reading; that's not it at all. There is some fine stuff here. It just could have used a little tuning. ** ½
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Summary: i cannot read this book...
Review: simply because the author's name is 'nan'. so sorry, but when i see the name 'nan mooney' it makes me want to vomit, or at least pass on reading this. anyone who walks around and authors books and attaches the name 'nan' screams overweight housewife to me. please pass on this because it really is wrong to read a book by an author with sch a name. if i wrote a book, and signed 'little danny o'malley' would you read it? hell no. or heck, which i'm sure amazon will put in the previous sentence.
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Summary: I had to put it down...
Review: This book is so full of useless, flowery writing that I just couldn't take it anymore. Her method of description is simply annoying. Not only that... every chapter begins with lame stories of May May, Nan's grandmother, that just about drove me crazy.
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Summary: One Of The Very Best
Review: This book kept me up all night reading. It is full of great stories and many laughs. I am looking forward to the next book by Nan Mooney.
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