Status Updates From Coyote Autumn

After a little bit of a rough start, I think we’ll be okay.

I haven’t read this book since I was about ten, and I forgot how annoyingly it’s written. It gives you some information and then rephrases that same information. You don’t need to tell us twice!

A nice children's book about socializing a coyote (one of my life's dreams 😆). Brad learns a lot and this is a different coming of age story. Personally I would have preferred if this was narrated in the third person because I don't know if Wallace's first person makes a lot of sense in this context. He doesn't adequately capture the thirteen year old's thoughts - he's too introspective!

At the beginning of chapter 4, the author wrote "Nolan and I threw everything we had at those stupid fish" (Wallace 18). This quote shows that the characters are still young. They are still throwing things to hit the fish just for fun and calling them stupid. Adults won't do this because they would do and say other things that hat would be worse.

The quote I liked was "No neighbors so close you couldn't even burp without the guy next door calling out, 'Excuse you'." I liked how the author used the metaphor of burp to emphasize the context that each house is very quiet and far from each other.