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February 24, 2007

2007 Year of the Pig

In honor of the Chinese New Year - it's the Year of the Pig - here are a few books that seem to fit the occasion.
Swine are gregarious in nature, intelligent and tasty too! The family Suidae is not only the animal of the year but it's also been popular with authors this past year.

The Good Good Pig is ardent nature lover Sy Montgomery’s story of her unique friendship with a pig named Christopher Hogwood who helped her develop a new relationship with her small-town community neighbors.

Peter Kaminsky’s Pig Perfect is subtitled “encounters with remarkable swine and some great ways to cook them.”

Irish playwright Kitty Fitzgerald debut novel Pigtopia is a beautifully written moral fable of a deformed giant who finds solace and refuge with pigs.

And "the sine qua non of books on swine," according to one book review, is popular science writer Lyall Watson's The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs.

Posted by MaryF at February 24, 2007 07:56 PM