Book Review

The Daily Coyote (2008)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Release Date: Dec 02, 2008; Writer: Shreve Stockton; Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction; Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Three years ago, Shreve Stockton impulsively moved to Ten Sleep, a small town in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, where she fell in love with a baby coyote gifted to her by her cowboy boyfriend. Helpless and flea-ridden when he arrived, Stockton's new pet, Charlie, soon began to grow, and Stockton found herself trying to domesticate a wild animal. The Daily Coyote, an extension of Stockton's blog, also named 
The Daily Coyote, is filled with puffed-up prose: ''What Charlie...had 
inspired me to do, was willingly 
give up some of my wildness, for love.''
 But Coyote's main problem is that it doesn't go anywhere. There are few revelations, and it's only slightly more interesting than a dog-training guide. But the pics of sweet, blue-eyed Charlie are downright coo-worthy. C–

Originally posted Nov 12, 2008 Published in issue #1021-1022 Nov 21, 2008 Order article reprints

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