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cbabe

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5. Horse/Geraldine Brooks

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:09 PM

Jun 1

As recommended here.

Good reading. Plantation horse beeder to civil war to modern day Smithsonian science.

‘Inspired by the remarkable true story of the record breaking thoroughbred Lexington…A novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.’

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What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? [View all] hermetic Jun 1 OP

I finished Isola by Allegra Goodman. mentalsolstice Jun 1 #1

I was pleasantly surprised hermetic Jun 1 #6

Lovely day to you. Now reading a new author to me, Chris Whitaker, with a different cadence. txwhitedove Jun 1 #2

That one sounds good! mentalsolstice Jun 1 #4

Any corporate owned US news paper I peruse in the library. nt ImNotGod Jun 1 #3

Horse/Geraldine Brooks cbabe Jun 1 #5

And then the ending... hermetic Jun 3 #7

Yes, the ending is very dark. cbabe Jun 3 #8