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3.95 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Cancer, Antisemitism
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent
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This book was picked for me and also fitted a challenge. The pig is an endearing character in what is essentially just another memoir of someone I don't know and really don't find interesting. For me there were some amusing moments but too much repetition to really engage me
I continue to love Sy Montgomery’s books. Her love of animals and the way she incorporates this love into her beautiful life is simply wonderful. We all should be blessed to know someone as healing as Christopher Hogwood!
I just could not get in to this 245 page overly effusive ode to an animal. The author seems to believe both literally and figuratively that her pig’s [poop] don’t sink but I am not sure what made this pig so “extraordinary”.
I was also a little offput by the author herself. She came off a bit "braggy" and I was really uncomfortable with how she shared her stories about her parents.
I was also a little offput by the author herself. She came off a bit "braggy" and I was really uncomfortable with how she shared her stories about her parents.
Christopher Hogwood definitely gives you a new perspective toward every pig you’ll see from now on.
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Reading The Good, Good Pig made me so happy! I felt like I lived that life while I was reading it.
I give it 5 stars, and not just because it's about a pig. It is a terrific story about a woman and her pig. When I got it (as a gift) I didn't know that the author, Sy Montgomery, is an accomplished writer, particularly on the topics of animals and natural history. Stories about her projects are sprinkled throughout this book, which of course is about the adventure of owning a pig, which is no small undertaking. Some things are obvious (pigs are big! They eat a lot!), but others are virtually unknown, since pigs are almost always raised for slaughter, and do not live more than a few months. I collect artistic representations of pigs but I also eat pork, and this book did not make me want to run out and get a pet pig (first I'd need a farm, and an enthusiastic and supportive community), although I did almost reconsider my pork consumption. However I think that, as with all meat we eat, there is a responsible way to eat pork. Certainly Christopher Hogwood's life story makes my belief in the nature of pigs all the stronger.