<![CDATA[A Day No Pigs Would Die]]>

false <![CDATA[A Day No Pigs Would Die]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745754m/118041.jpg 118041 15 Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood. In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy -- whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without "frills" in the Shaker Way -- becomes a man. That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful farmer brings him a gift -- a newborn pig. His father at first demurs ("We thank you, Brother Tanner," said Papa, "but it's not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives her his devotion ... He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. He hears rumors of sin. He is taken -- at last -- to the Rutland Fair. He broadens his heart to make room even for Baptists. And when his father, who can neither read nor cipher, whose hands are bloodied by his trade, whose wisdom and mastery of country things are bred in the bone, entrusts Rob with his final secret, the boy makes the sacrifice that completes his passage into manhood. All is told with quiet humor and simplicity. Here are lives lived by earthy reason -- in a novel that, like a hoedown country fiddler's tune, rings at the same time with both poignancy and cheer. 669174 12 12 1972 A Day No Pigs Would Die total:1617|5:344|4:484|3:456|2:210|1:123| 1617 5567 1949 192 2 1 false false Thu Dec 20 12:54:09 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 12:54:36 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:00:34 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:12:34 -0800 2009 the role of the man in his family. There were some down-home phrases
li...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 18:02:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 18:02:34 -0700 2009 A Day No Pigs Would Die that I had bought at a second-hand store and decided to take it. While on my trip I read the first 25 or so pages. I was not real...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 02 19:08:04 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 19:09:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 08:11:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 17:29:43 -0700 2009 Well, I never would have picked it up, but in English, my teacher's making us read it. So I...obviously...read it.

At the beginning of the book, I wasn't really that interested in it, and I was sort of bored, but I was pulled in, and...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 06:45:47 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 05:56:03 -0700 2009
Pretty graphic parts...more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Jul 09 15:13:21 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 15:13:21 -0700 2007
It could also go on the "I had to face the death of my beloved pet" shelf with Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows. At least the kids who loved those dogs didn't have...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jan 09 17:56:14 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 17:17:04 -0800 2009
A Day No Pigs Would Die By Robert Newton Peck
Newberry Award Winner (I think)
8/10
This was a favorite of an ex boyfriend of mine. I can see why people love this book, but it isn't one I like to read. It is written in a matter of fact dia...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jun 07 09:15:45 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 12:15:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Dec 09 01:35:45 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 01:44:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Aug 19 09:02:34 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 09:07:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun May 11 13:15:35 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 13:17:24 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 12:47:58 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 12:55:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jan 31 08:13:29 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 08:26:32 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:32:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:32:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 16:12:17 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 16:23:40 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 15 06:32:10 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 06:32:27 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 14 04:48:28 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 04:50:14 -0800 2009 i loaned it to my city slicker boyfriend to help him understand what life on a farm was like as i grew up.
it made him cry and gave him a better understanding of why i love the farm life and...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 22 11:53:32 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 11:54:47 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 10:56:16 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 20:55:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=118041