veronicachp 's review for:

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery

3.0

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Despite initial reticence, I actually really liked this book. It certainly gave me new insight on pigs, which, until now, terrified me. Due to a bad experience with a pig when she was young, my aunt raised me on tales of vicious, slavering hogs that would gore anyone they happened to come across. Looking at pictures of huge, curly tusked, beady eyed boars, I believed her. The picture of Christoper presented couldn’t be more different, apart from the slavering, which is just a sign of how much he enjoyed his dinner. I wouldn’t say it made me want a pig, but I’ll say that perhaps I’ll regard pigs I meet with less suspicion.

I’m particularly charmed by Montgomery’s descriptions of a life spent flying off into distant jungles to look for exotic animals and new experiences, and plan to do the same thing, but maybe with less man eating tigers. I also think it’s nice that when she’s done tracking tigers and tarantulas through the jungle, she has a farm load of animals and a family who loves her to go back to.