Comments on: 11. Reading Thoreau

By: Susan Tiner

Susan Tiner — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000

Tabitha isn’t it just amazing how great Walden is when you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it?

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:38:24 +0000

So odd, just last week feeling a little down I went rooting for my old annotated copy of Walden and nop – gone – I felt so sad, that nothing else would me help me through my dark night of the soul and I just reordered it too!

By: Susan Tiner

Susan Tiner — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:46:25 +0000

Lisa, I hope you will read it and take lots of notes. Maybe you could share them on facebook?

Meredith, so nice to see you here. I love the idea of being a child of Thoreau. I am going to have to Second Nature — I read Omnivore’s Dilemma and loved it.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:59:28 +0000

Hi, Susan! It’s my first visit to your blog, and I had no idea I was in for such a treat. Thoreau is one of my inspirations, and a few years ago I gave away my copy and felt so bereft, I went to my local independent bookstore within 48 hours to get a copy. I *love* that you paid express shipping for a minimalist — made me smile. :)

This spring, when reading Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (highly recommended), I was shocked because he *nailed* me in the introduction, saying that when confronting the wilderness every American is “a child of Thoreau” and then proceeding to dissect some of my own assumptions about Nature. Brilliantly done! It is good to have our old loves & ideas questioned sometimes — although when it comes to Walden, I don’t like the interrogation to be too thorough. ;)

By: Lisa Golden

Lisa Golden — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:38:53 +0000

I really enjoyed this wonderful piece of storytelling! I picked up a copy of Walden a couple of year ago and have yet to read it. You’ve inspired me to do so. I know right where it is – ready and waiting for me to make notes. I hope!

By: Susan Tiner

Susan Tiner — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:21:09 +0000

Thank you Hannah! I know what you mean about books taking on the personality of the readers. Loaded indeed.

By: Hannah Stephenson

Hannah Stephenson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:46:51 +0000

You are so fantastically open, and a natural storyteller. I enjoyed this…it made me think of how books take on the personalities of the people who recommend them to us or who love them. The idea of “loaded books”—we put all sorts of extra significance onto them. I love that.

By: Susan Tiner

Susan Tiner — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:51:13 +0000

@La Belette Rouge I have the hardcopy for reference and notes but am also listening to an unabridged audio version of it via audible.com. It’s the one narrated by Adams Morgan. I’m not thrilled with Morgan’ s way of speaking but it’s ok and I like his voice better than the others I sampled.

By: Susan Tiner

Susan Tiner — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:48:08 +0000

@savvysavingbytes thank you! Also thank you for the link. I read your post and it’s very good, another Thoreau admirer. I do not think of Thoreau as being frugal for its own sake but as a means to gain more freedom.

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