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To Live Deliberately: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry David Thoreau

wanderlustlover's review

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4.0

I love all of the Obvious State books and recently kickstarted the newest set of ten, the first six of which were sent early and two of which were still being made. I am doing the beginnings of these the same before adding some commentary in under since I flew through them all this week. The art is what makes these books forever and ever and ever amen. It's why they make them, taking the classics that touch our hearts so deeply and displaying them across the pages of these books.

I am a huge Thoreau (and The Transcendentalists, in general, and specific) fan. Like Frost's collection of poems being a departure from the one long pome, this is a departure from the pact in an abbreviated length of Thoreau's essay. It's so gorgeous and heart-touching. I love the deliberateness given to the way this book is set up, its message, and the visuals. I have several people in my life who need copies of this stat.
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