Very interesting; I am even now writing about how much so on Goodreads. I am tempted to go back through Cook now, except I am not certain if I would have the patience -- but I suppose I will only find out by finding out.

You make it clear in the second how very high the stakes are in the learning and how fraught the experience is, but the people are so enjoyable that I nonetheless find myself daydreaming about joining a Wizard Homeschool Cooperative for Adult Learners (oh felicitious phrase!).