commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Frank McCourt's Six-Word Memoir
The miserable childhood leads to royalties.
Frank McCourt, in Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith eds., It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure from SMITH Magazine (New York: Harper Collins, 2010), p. 44
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