Reading in college was always a chore for me. I only started enjoying books when I didn't have to have them finished by the next morning.literary publisher John Corenswet (Paul Dry Books), quoted in Nell Porter Brown, "A Leap into Books," Harvard Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 2001, at 90, 91.
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.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Reading as chore or pleasure
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