The yearling

I didn't think I liked this book for awhile, than it grew on me, than I wasn't so sure again, and I ended up with: it's really well written, I enjoyed some aspects of the book, I'm glad I read it, and it's not a favorite. The book includes a lot of the descriptive details that I love to set the scene and time period; in a way, it kind of reminded me of Little House on the Prairie in how I was interested in all the aspects of subsistence farming and hunting. (I'm glad that I don't have to grow all my own food to survive, but I'm actually fascinated by all those things.) I was also surprised that the adopted fawn didn't show up until about a third of the way into the book, as I thought the book was about the yearling. At some point later in the book, it clicked to me – Jody is The Yearling!