Sounds like a great big oxymoron, right? Wrong. This week, HN book critic Erin McCabe checks out Charles Bukowski’s poetry collection The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses. (more…)

Horse Nation book critic happens upon My Sadie by Tasha Tudor, an illustrated middle-grade read with the relationship between a girl and a Percheron farmhouse at its core. (more…)

Horse Nation book editor Erin McCabe finds this novel by Katrina Kittle a fast-moving, and just plain moving, read. (more…)

HN book critic Erin McCabe is inspired by Kristin Kimball’s “memoir of farming, food and love.” And, yes, there are horses in it. (more…)

Bless her little bookworm heart, Erin McCabe has been reviewing one book a week for us since HN first emerged from its virtual womb. And yet, she’s hardly made a dent in her to-read list. Can anyone help her whittle the thing down? (more…)

Horse Nation bookworm Erin McCabe mends her dashed Triple Crown dreams with this tribute to life lessons learned from ex-racehorses by Lynn Reardon. (more…)

Horse Nation book critic Erin McCabe reviews this middle grade novel by Anne Hambleton that gives insight into the life of an ex-racehorse. (more…)

Seeking relief from serious, wordy, grown-up books, Erin McCabe finds exactly what she’s looking for in this fun, fast, middle-grade read. (more…)

Book critic Erin McCabe picked up D.J. Taylor’s Derby Day expecting a fast-paced, thrilling read. What she found instead was a wordy snooze. (more…)

When HN Book Critic Erin McCabe started retraining her 4-year-old OTTB, she picked up Beyond the Track: Retraining the Thoroughbred from Racehorse to Riding Horse. (more…)

Horse Nation book critic Erin McCabe reviews Blaze of Glory, a Young Adult novel by M. Garzon that she describes as “vampire hot.” (more…)