A commonplace book is where you keep the lines worth keeping. Locus Communis is one you can carry: read, mark the passage, save the exact words, and share what you keep. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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Books & Backroads: Postcard from Louisbourg
This week, CBC’s Books & Backroads summer series is visiting the Nova Scotia community of Louisbourg, where the book club has been reading The Spoon Stealers by Lesley Crewe. Club member Jennifer Bussey explains why the “raw beauty” of the remote Cape Breton community is good for the soul. For more on this series, visit cbc.ca/booksandbackroads
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7242046?cmp=rss
Every passage you keep gets a margin, and the margin stays open. Come back in a year and answer your younger self in the same place. That's the whole idea: a book that listens. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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There's a whole library behind your book: shelves for reading, finished, and up next, ratings, and covers by the hundred. Come put your reading life in order. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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My Book is a commonplace book of your own. Every line you keep, from novels, films, and TV, bound into one book. Private by default, shown only when you choose. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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We keep a public book. Open it to any page and you'll land on a passage a stranger couldn't let go of. No account needed to read it. If a line of yours belongs there, come add it. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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Locus Communis opens like a real book. Pages turn, the spine curves, and the lines you kept wait where you left them. Come read your own margins for a while. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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Some readers underline. Some fold corners. We keep: the exact words, in a book that turns, with a margin for later and a card worth sending. Come keep with us. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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That perfect line is in a screenshot somewhere. Or a dog-eared page, or a notes app you stopped opening. Give the lines you love one address. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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The real test of a passage is whether you go back to it. A commonplace book makes going back easy: everything you kept, one book, always where you left it. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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The reader got a rework. Your commonplace book opens as a real book: pages turn, and every passage keeps a dated margin where you write back to it. Notes sit beside the words that caused them, and the margin feed gathers the newest thinking across your whole book. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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For centuries readers kept commonplace books: borrowed lines copied by hand into a private anthology. Ours does what theirs did, and the pages still turn. Come keep words with us. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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Book clubs are live on Locus Communis. Your club reads the same book in any copy: paper, ereader, library loan. Everyone brings back the passages that struck them, word for word, and the club builds an anthology that outlives any chat. When two of you keep the same line, the club sees it. Hosts get invites, co-hosts, a pinned note, and a meeting calendar. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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A paraphrase never lands like the sentence did. Keep the exact words, with the author and the book they came from, in a book that's yours. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
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Every passage you keep gets a margin, and the margin stays open. Come back in a year and answer your younger self in the same place. That's the whole idea: a book that listens. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
#commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon
There's a whole library behind your book: shelves for reading, finished, and up next, ratings, and covers by the hundred. Come put your reading life in order. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
#commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon
My Book is a commonplace book of your own. Every line you keep, from novels, films, and TV, bound into one book. Private by default, shown only when you choose. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
#commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon
Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury
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I’m Dr. Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury, green building #architect, #painter, #writer, #reiki master. I write #EcoFiction and support #SolutionsJournalism. Opinions are my own and may only be reprinted by outside sources with my written permission. She/her/hers #appreciation #celtic #bengali #desi #MixedDesi #vancouver #ny #nj #pa #ecology #sustainability #artist #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM #GoodNews #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #IndieAuthor #postcolonial #intersectionality
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Paperbacks now available! 🌍📘
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Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now open for paperback presale worldwide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t
About Rail:
Drawn into a globe‑spanning infrastructure proposal with uncertain motives, a designer confronts ecological ethics, corporate ambition, and the meaning of home as her past and future converge.
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We keep a public book. Open it to any page and you'll land on a passage a stranger couldn't let go of. No account needed to read it. If a line of yours belongs there, come add it. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
#commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon
Locus Communis opens like a real book. Pages turn, the spine curves, and the lines you kept wait where you left them. Come read your own margins for a while. Start yours at https://locuscommunis.com/signup
#commonplace #reading #bookclub #bookstodon