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The Daily Coyote

a Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming
May 16, 2010lisahiggs rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I got this book out after it was mentioned on dooce.com. The title of the book makes more sense if you know that it’s a blog-turned-book. Neither remarkable nor un-, it is a sweet little story about the author’s first year spent with a wild coyote pup turned pet. The main drawback is that the story is much better than the writing; it feels like Stockton is telling her story as a one-sided conversation with the reader, including the parts where you realize you’ve forgotten something your listener will need to know to understand the next bit, so you hurriedly go off on a tangential explanation and return several minutes later with “So anyway, where was I? Oh yes …” However, the thousands of words all the photographs in this book are worth make up for it.