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.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Sinclair Lewis on Library Chance
"When you drop into the library and take out a book you never know what you're wasting your time on."
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (quoted in Norman D. Stevens, Two Hundred and Twenty Thousand Platitudes, American Libraries, May 1998, at 79, 81.
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