ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

This is another of the library sale books that I’ve had since I was a kid, but only read recently in my efforts to actually work my way through the prodigious stack of long unread books sitting in the laundry room. It’s actually not a bad little read, although I’d classify it more as a young adult fiction as opposed to an actual children’s book, since it does handle a few mature themes such as teenage girls falling in love. The characters are in general pretty interesting, and it’s one of those rather good natured old fashioned types of teen novels that mostly predates the more contemporary young adult themes of pregnancy, OUTTA CONTROL drugs, and eating disorders. This is a pretty simple story about a girl who spends her summer saving a horse and falling in love with her grandmother’s rich neighbor’s grandson who has not lived up to the expectations of his high class family. I read it last year, so I don’t remember what it was he wanted to be instead of a championship rider, like a veterinarian or an artist or something. I do remember that the book isn’t entirely happy, but that the end is nice and I felt satisfied. I read it on a sort of cold and lonely night when I was sick and I drew a hot bath and sat in the tub and read this book all at once.