Welcome to my commonplace blog

The goal of this blog is to preserve a few ideas and quotes from books I read. In the old days when books were not so readily available, people kept "commonplace books" where they copied choice passages they wanted to be able to remember and perhaps reuse. The idea got picked up by V.F.D. and it's common knowledge that most of that organization's volunteers have kept commonplace books, and so have Laura and I.

I'm sure there are many other Internet sites and blogs dedicated to the same idea. But this one is mine. Feel free to look around and leave comments, but not spam.

27 June 2010

Attila The Pun (Daniel Pinkwater)

The second book in the Magic Moscow trilogy (which also includes The Slaves of Spiegel).

This book brings some real magic to the Magic Moscow, Hoboken's favorite combination health food, junk food and ice cream restaurant. In the form of the ghost of an almost-famous person from long ago (guess who...). Anyway, this is probably the weakest of the Magic Moscow books, only because the other two are so good. Still a fun read.

Quotes:

"What has only one horn and gives milk? Give up? A milk truck!" Attilla the Pun

The audience loved him. It turned out that fifth-century Hun humour really goes over well in Hoboken.

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