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.

06 February 2011

Fat Camp Commandos (Daniel Pinkwater)

Funny and Subversive, sprinkled with thinly-disguised references to real people and places in the Chicago area.

Great stuff! How did this get published?


Quotes:

"I feel a little bad about saying all those mean things." Sylvia said.
"And yet, at the same time, I wonder if anybody ever felt bad about saying similar things to me."
"Bingo!" Mavis said. "People in general thing if you're fat, they can say whatever they like."

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