Oink! My Life With Minipigs (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
There is much charm to this humorous British memoir, but as a talking book it went a wee bit long for me. I found myself getting annoyed with the author's efforts to appease his rather demanding wife and children. Really, if in order to raise your family's opinion of you you've doused yourself with boar scent in preparation for artificially inseminating the family pig, it might be time for the man of the house to grow a pair of his own. The narrator excellently portrays all the characters, particularly the neighbor Tom. Certainly nothing about the story convinced me to adopt mini-pigs. This book was entertaining and easy to read, but at the end it was hard to feel sympathy for anyone in that family. As far as memoirs go, the author does a decent job at portraying his life since the arrival of mini-pigs to his house, but he comes out as a whinny person in the end. If anything, I want a memoir written by Tom, his best friend and handyman.One last comment, this book reiterated my opinion that we (my wife and I) will never have mini-pigs.
What do You think about Oink! My Life With Minipigs (2011)?
I set a goal to read 25 books in 2011. No rule against sneaking in a book about adorable tiny pigs.
—samaz95
I was a fun book to read although some chapters (7) had TMI about pig breeding.
—charu
The challenges and joys of raising mini-pigs as family pets
—sam
