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.

19 November 2010

Nighty-Nightmare (James Howe)

I think this was the funniest book in the "Bunniculla" series, so far, even though Bunniculla is once more absent. I guess there is only so much you can do with a mute rabbit, right? But the overt and covert references to Bram Stoker's Dracula are plentiful, and Howie's abominable puns are relentless. Chester is crazier than ever, there is a dog named Dawg and, as usual, things are not what they seem.


Quotes:

Chester, being a cat, needs to have his reality checked from time to time, the way car owners have their oil checked.

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