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Reexperiencing this lovely audiobook (again!) because it is the next book the new Hokah library book club will be reading. I suspect I'll also get the hard copy text in another week or two, at least to skim through some parts, but listening to Tom Hanks read this enjoyable story is too nice a treat to pass up even if I have listened previously - Goodreads tells me it was already back in 2020 when I last read this.

The bad habit correction schemes in ch 3 seem to emphasize the role of a teacher, so may be challenging to implement solo.

The benefits of breaks seem really valuable, so should really figure out a way to apply that idea consistently.

The whole turkey incident. And now Solomon is gone and not coming back.

Em visited him on a weeknight just over a year into his sentence. It didn't seem to go great.

Liking it much better now, after those first few chapters made me wonder if I could actually read this book. It's still grim, but somehow more manageable now that "the unthinkable" section is past.

In the championship of the hunting competition, off to a good start with a quick find for the first hide. And the hunt continues.

Grandpa springs a coon hunt competition on him. They're all excited to go, just leaving at the end of the concluded chapter.

Hunting the "ghost coon" turned tragic, but the treatment didn't seem to me serious enough, ending with a "I did a small thing that made me feel better about it, so let's go hunting again." I guess it is a YA book, but that casualness still surprised me.

Big into the coon hunting now.

On the first coon hunt. Working on downing the big tree, to keep his word to his dogs.

Every chapter a new horror, or at least another thing to be perturbed about.

I shouldn't be surprised, and yet it's maddening to read yet again how the US political system has been skewed to deliver rewards to those that seem to need them least.

Through the trip to Utah and Moab, now the big trip to Yellowstone via Teddy Roosevelt's park in Western ND.

Enjoying her facility with making humor out of things, like the nearest town to a place in AR being "Flippin" (think "Flippin city government, Flippin police," etc).

Loved the anecdote about her son loving Godzilla and her having to read him the subtitles while he watched when home sick from school. And the comparison to Harry Truman, and also to J. Robert Oppenheimer.