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.

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24 September 2010

Diamond Willow (Helen Frost)

This was recommended by my daughter Laura, who got it from her teacher, Miss Seivel. It's a dog-and-girl story told in blank verse shaped as diamonds, each one containing a "hidden message" inside. Nicely done. Very very sad, but it ends well. I liked it very much.


Quotes:

I pack snow into the dog pot. Dad gets a good fire going
in the oil-drum stove. He loves these dogs like I do. We're
both out here on weekends, as much as we can be, and every
day before and after school. He loves Roxy most. Willow, go
get the pliers, he say, showing me a quill in Roxy's foot

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