Some Book Reviews Concerning Horses

Over on one of my other blogs, A Year With Horses, I've done a series of book reviews on horse-related topics:

Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust Between Horse and Rider (Mark Rashid)

A Horse's Thought - A Journey Into Honest Horsemanship (Tom Moates)

Old Men and Horses: a Gift of Horsemanship (Ross Jacobs)

Be With Your Horse: Getting to the Heart of Horsemanship (Tom Widdicombe)

Review: Eating Animals

For my review of Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, please see this post at my other blog CrazyVeggieLady.

Review: The Face On Your Plate

For my review of the book The Face On Your Plate: The Truth About Food, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, see this post on my blog CrazyVeggieLady.

Reviews: A Cookbook and a Mystery

Please go to this post to read my brief review of Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China, by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. Since it's a cookbook, the post is on my food and cooking blog, CrazyVeggieLady.

I also recently finished an interesting mystery by Hakan Nesser - Mind's Eye (translated by Laurie Thompson). Nesser is Swedish, and has a number of other books out - Borkmann's Point, Woman with Birthmark, A Rather Different Story and Carambole. I've read the first two and need to look for the others. I've been reading a lot of Scandinavian mysteries lately - from Sweden, Norway and Iceland - and at some point I should collect my thoughts and do a post on all of those - there's a lot of good mysteries being translated now.

His books are very interesting - the detective, Inspector Van Veeteren, is a fascinating character in his own right. The plots and characters are interesting, and the books are well-written. I would describe them as atmospheric, psychological, police procedurals - there's a lot going on and the books really draw you in. Highly recommended.