New Release Tuesday (edition 2)

The Farmer's Son - I went back and forth on whether or not I wanted to add this book to my library (the author is a Hemingway fan and I am decidedly not) - but, in the end, I couldn't resist the idea of baby cows!

Kentucky Derby Dreams -  I once got to spend some time with two foals. I loved their gangly legs and whiskered muzzles - and found out they can bite quite hard with their little teeth! And if I'm going to read about calves, I thought I should read about foals, too!

The Lambs - To round things out, I thought I'd add some lambs, too!















I paired these two titles together because they both concern the Academy. I had high hopes for The Study of Animal Languages since I'm interested in animal studies and animal communication, but it's been sad so far. I hope it turns around! The Scholar features a professor and researcher that gets swept up in a murder. I certainly don't want anything of the kind in my own academic life - but it's fun to read about!

Both of these titles are YA works that include LGBTQ+ characters - something YA does, in my opinion, much better than current "grown up" literature. I think I'll enjoy Multitudes more, since it's an epistolary novel, but the offspring-of-the-(female!)-POTUS/ royal son sounds fun!

I still have enough sawdust (stall-dust) in my soul to be excited when a new horse book comes out!


Rough Magic concerns the "lonely" world of Mongolian horse racing, while Wild Horses is about riding in Iceland.