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.

14 March 2013

Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)

What a pleasure to read this with Laura! The brutal chapter about the visit to Ole Golly's Mom happens early in the story than i had remembered. I love it that we see this brilliant but far from perfect girl learn an important lesson and grow up a little, but by the end of the book we know she still has a way to go.


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