Thomas Foley

Just finished this book. It's a thin volume and a very quick read. The autobiography of Tom Foley, who was a successful steeplechase jockey who switched to flat racing and (eventually) realized that he'd lost track of why he wanted to work with horses in the first place.

It is, in a way, a story that many can understand because it is about how his youthful idealism turned to adult pragmatism - but his realization that what he thought he was doing for the best, most practical reasons were not show more fulfilling him in even the simplest of ways. show less

This was not what I expected it to be. I was hoping for more personal writings of events and feelings in her life during the civil war, but it was mostly just very short entries of what she did each day. The annotations were basic, mainly just references to newspaper notices of lectures she went to. AND WHAT HAPPENED TO VINCENT? LOL