Thumbing Through Thoreau Virtual Book Tour June 2010

Join Kenny Luck, author of the inspirational coffee table book, Thumbing Through Thoreau – A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau (Tribute Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June ‘10 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Kenny Luck

Kenny Luck is a graduate student at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History/Political Science from the same institution. He writes for The Weekender – an arts and entertainment weekly – and is currently working on his second book. He enjoys recording music, book browsing, and travel.  You can visit his website at www.thumbingthroughthoreau.com.

Thumbing Through Thoreau is his debut book.

About Thumbing Through Thoreau

On July 4, 1845, when Henry David Thoreau moved into his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, he was probably unaware that his abode in the woods, and the impact and influence of that endeavor, would forever echo through time. Thoreau was an uncompromising idealist; an ardent maverick who criticized his fellow man. He urged that men and women ought to live more simply, and more deliberately. “The mass of men,” he famously wrote, “lead lives of quite desperation.” Yet the scope of Thoreau’s message is much wider than social criticism. He speaks of spiritual transcendence in Nature and the unbounded potential of the individual. Thoreau is a dreamer and he speaks to dreamers. In a word, shun dogmatism and demagoguery; see beyond the immediate conventional religious explanations to reap a higher understanding. In our commodified contemporary American society, with the rise of religious intolerance and fundamentalism, materialism and mass consumerism, Thoreau’s message is needed now more than ever. Author Kenny Luck has thumbed through Thoreau’s voluminous journals, correspondences and other publications to make this the most comprehensive collection of Thoreau aphorisms available.

Read what critics have to say about Thumbing Through Thoreau

As an historian who has made the study of Henry Thoreau my main interest for almost 15 years, I have always found his writings to be very “modern.” This book of Thoreau’s quotations, all of which were written 150 years ago, are indeed very timely for today’s modern, over-worked, over-stressed and over-materialistic world. Thoreau’s ideas about the search for a simpler way of life ring truer now then they did in the 19th Century!

Richard Smith
Historian
Concord, Massachusetts

Thumbing Through Thoreau Tour Schedule

Tuesday, June 1
Interviewed at Blogcritics

Thursday, June 3
Book spotlighted at Examiner

Friday, June 4
Book reviewed by The Cajun Book Lady

Monday, June 7
Book reviewed and book giveaway at Chew & Digest Books

Book reviewed at A Life in Not So Many Words

Tuesday, June 8
Book reviewed at Truth Be Told
Interviewed at The Hot Author Report

Wednesday, June 9
Book reviewed by The Introverted Reader

Thursday, June 10
Book reviewed by Confessions of an Overworked Mom

Friday, June 11
Book reviewed at My Favorite Things
Interviewed at Beyond the Books

Monday, June 14
Book reviewed by Today’s Adventure

Tuesday, June 15
Book reviewed by Reading at the Beach
Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book
Book reviewed at Knits and Reads

Wednesday, June 16
Book reviewed by Write for a Reader

Thursday, June 17
Book reviewed by Rundpinne

Friday, June 18
Book reviewed by Lucky Rosie’s
Book reviewed by Freelancing Parents

Monday, June 21
Book reviewed by When Kate Blogs
Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Tuesday, June 22
Guest blogging and book giveaway at Night Owl Reviews

Wednesday, June 23
Book reviewed by Allison’s Attic

Thursday, June 24
Book reviewed by I Heart Books
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Friday, June 25
Book reviewed at The Life (and lies) of an Inanimate Flying Object

Kenny Luck’s THUMBING THROUGH THOREAU VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on June 1  and end on June 11 2010.  Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com before May 30  if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing  her book during her virtual book tour or click here to use the form.  Thank you!

Update: Kenny Luck’s Thumbing Through Thoreau tour has been finalized.  Thanks to all participating tour hosts!

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