Sy Montgomery wrote The Good Good Pig; The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood about her pet pig. The pig was named after a music conductor who conducted the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for four years. The pig and it's owners live in rural New Hampshire. They got the pig from a pig farm because it was the runt of the litter and not expected to live. The pig did live and eventually grew to be 750 pounds. The author writes about getting food for the pig from neighbors and local restaurants. Sometimes the pig escaped the pen and wandered to town only to be brought back by the local police officer who kept apples in his car in case this happened. The author talks about how special the pig was but it seemed to me that this was an ordinary pig. Sometimes I got the feeling the author was using the pig to inform us about her other books and her extraordinary work with other animals and nature. I would have liked this book if the author wasn't so self-aggrandizing.
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