Was surrounded by the atmosphere of the mid19th century. I was afraid to come here because i was afraid a parking lot would ruin it. I would like to pronounce this names. Locals and scholars and there are no family members now but they know he was named Henry David Thoreau and they acted on the first sill bill. His family was from new jersey and only two generations of the pronunciation of s thorough and changed it here. If we learned tomorrow that enest hemmingway pronounced his name differently we would not say it differently. Having spent up close time with him for two years i tend to call him henry. And the book is a closeup personal almost novel like look at his years. And i dont mean fiction but detailed and primary. Throughout the book i call him henry and i will fall into that. I need to start with a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson who said of his old friend he was free and strange. And the one thing i keep coming back to was henry was very strange and that was the exciting
When you write, you cannot sit down to write a bestseller. In fact you should not thing about that issue at all when you sit town to write. What you should do when you sit down to write is write what you find interesting and follow your own curiosity. When i was writing tipple point i never tried to imagine how the book would sell. I wanted to write something that was cool and i was interested in and my friend would read that my mother would like. Read more of the conversation and other interviews from our book notes and q and a programs. Now available as a fathers day gift at your Favorite Book seller. Michael sims is up next with the adventures of Henry Thoreau a young mans unlikely path to walden pond. He spoke in massachusetts at the concord bookstore for a little less than an hour. The bottom line is i like to type. Thank you very much come forking out today and i was wondering if it was going to rain on me and i was thinking i should not be worried about that because it is Henry