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 November 2011

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

I enjoyed reading this book with Laura. The reason we picked it was because it was one of the books the librarian recommends to Matilda in the Roald Dahl book. I was pleasantly surprised, especially by the excellent characters. The plot is full of twists and unpredictable. I'm glad we read it.


Quotes:

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

And it were my intentions to have had put upon his tombstone that Whatsume’er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.”

And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

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