[januaryman]

I agree about that heavy book that now sits nearly unmolested on my bookshelf. The iPad version is always ready and I am highlighting like a fiend. Some material is familiar and I have read it before, but not sure where. Other stuff is brand new, including info on the real people upon which he based his characters. Like Jim, the runaway slave and Aunt Polly. Even his sometimes overly sentimental thoughts that start with "I remember.." and continue sentence after sentence with that same refrain, are touching and left me yearning for those simpler times. But I have to admit at getting impatient at the sheer VOLUME of thought images he conjures up in one spot. So I close and bookmark the page and get back to it after some time. Usually as a refuge from some of those truly awful TV shows that today pass for entertainment.