Member: carolinajoy

Please consider writing a review for I Heard Good News. The homeschooling company Sonlight just added it to their kindergarten curriculum and no one knows very much about it yet. What time periods does it cover? How long is each story?

I'm making the request of everyone who has the book in their library, so if you don't check here often, there may be reviews up by the time you see this.

Thanks.

posted by mcegan at 9:31 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2009

Joy,

My summer project has been to read Walden page by page. I have an annotated copy by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Also read Cape Cod and am now into The Maine Woods. I was able to obtain an early edition of The Maine Woods- has a green cover and gilt signature of Thoreau on the cover. I'm also reading Cramer's version of I to Myself - an annotated selection of T's journals. Will be back in Concord soon to visit the pond and the museum. Hope to climb Wachusett. Told my son he had to read Walden before he turned thirty. I'd never really read the book from front to back. It's really been an eye opener for me - might have lived my life differently - but retired now so I have my freedom to be like Thoreau. Have a website with links:
http://homepage.mac.com/donsmith/thoreau...

I see you have Thornton Burgess added to your library. He was my mother's favorite - she knew him and read his books to me when I was little.

posted by donsmith at 12:18 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2008

Joy,

Finally found that copy of In American Fields and Forests and added it to my collection. Cost me more than $2, but I think I got a reasonable bargin. I guess it's all in what you feel a one hundred year old book is worth.

Don Smith

posted by donsmith at 7:10 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2008

Lucky you with Thoreau. I just got back from Concord, MA and the Concord Museum. A delight! Read about Thoreau's role in creating the modern pencil. If you do, you'll be looking for Thoreau pencils at that antique shop.

Interesting motivation for ebooks. Had a heart bypass operation, found I couldn't concentrate to read books (and I'm a retired school librarian). After the heart lung machine starved my brain of oxygen - this was in 1991, I found reading newspapers and magazines worked. The small page on my Palm Pilot allowed me to see just an infinite "newspaper" type column and I retrained myself to read books with a full page of information in front of me. There are a couple of doctors whose research supports my experience. The first "real" paper book I reread was Chesapeake by Michener. I still love my ebooks and have three Palm TX to read them on. Now if the new iPhone would just have an ebook reader written for it!

Try the sites http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php and http://www.ereader.com/ to see my favorite stores.

posted by donsmith at 10:20 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2008

I noticed that you had a copy of Thoreau's In American Fields and Forests. Where did you acquire it? I've been looking for one for some time.

Don Smith

posted by donsmith at 9:12 am (EST) on Jun 6, 2008