The Back In The Day Cookbook now naturally falls opens to the chocolate chip cookie page due to the weight of smeared chocolate, grease stains and caked on flower that have become a part of the book and reminders of the love I have for these cookies.
I can always locate those recipes, because my books fall open to the pages I cook from most, and after ten or twenty years they even fall apart at those pages — which I find convenient.
He has shown one passage to people so often that the book frequently falls open to that section, whose profanity he finds objectionable.
Alas, no one mentions my favorite thing to discover in a secondhand book: the pages it naturally falls open to, where the spine has been worn in with repeated readings of a particular passage.
It falls open to a well-worn page, Amazing Grace.
A science workbook falls open to a reveal an anatomical drawing of a dissected penis: You.
The page fell open to a Maryknoll Mission advertisement that read, "What are you doing this summer?
The book just doesn't fall open to any page, it will fall open to the page were the binding is most broken, the place most commonly visited by many different readers.
Another Morris Traveller fault (Letters, 16 June) were the rear doors which fell open to questing child fingers.
The two sisters are embalmed with rouge and lipstick while their dresses fall open to show breasts and nipples.
The common example of something more implicit is if you take a book, any older book from the library, and let it fall open to a page.
