Book description: A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to. . . The Horse Whisperer He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge. Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana. Annie has risked everything -- her career, her marriage, her comfortable life--in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. The accident has turned Pilgrim savage. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence. Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too. In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives--including Tom Booker's--will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold. At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure,The Horse Whispererweaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption--a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.
@brianhartgen Hi, Brian! I do them manually by copying the link to either the book or my review on Goodreads. As for the description, most of the time I take it from Goodreads also, but sometimes, I use one from Amazon or Bookshare. One of my favorite iOS tools is the "copy to clipboard" touch screen gesture, it makes all this very easy.
In the case of "The Horse Whisperer," there didn't seem to be a description on Goodreads, so I used the one from Bookshare.
@brianhartgen I like to include descriptions with my Mastodon posts of these book ratings so people who are interested can read it right there without having to click on a link. I notice you often do the same, and I appreciate that when people do so. it's nice to know, right then, what a book is about. It's also nice that certain Instances have a larger character limit so I can usually include the full description in the post, without having to edit it.
@brianhartgen Most Instances have at least a 500 character limit, and some have really outdone themselves. Dragons Cave has a 3,000 character limit. That's fantastic for writing about books or posting book information.
@brianhartgen@lynnskyi I wonder if any of the desktop PC clients respect that wonderful limit or if they just stick to the 500 character limit. For instance, if I'm replying to a dragonscave post, using tweescake, am I stuck with 500 characters? If so, why? I know Mona respects greater character limits.
@lynnskyi@EJGilbert@brianhartgen there is actually a practical reason why some have kept it at 500. it's storrage space. if you double it then you double the amount of space you need. that doesn't seem like a big deal until you have thousands of users no money coming in and maybe one or two people running it.
@EJGilbert@lynnskyi@brianhartgen i don't know that answer. i know aprox how many are on this platform but that is because the admin is really open about everything. even public about why some people or subjects get blocked i like that.
@gtbray@lynnskyi@brianhartgen I like that as well. By hitting control windows key alt I, I was able to discover that there are over 2700 accounts on my instance.
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