As I examine last year's victims, I find a geometry book that has been kicked like a soccer ball (I saw it happen), a vampire novel whose pages show bite marks (no joke), "The Joy of Cooking" stained with gravy and a copy of "Walden" with its spine cracked in three places.
He'll carry on about a book's heft and proportion, the way its spine cracks when you open it the first time and the feeling of accomplishment that comes with turning the pages one by one, the left side growing as the right side shrinks.
After a (not so) brief holiday hiatus, the Book Club is back and eager to get those spines cracking.
By Macy Halford January 10 , 2011After a (not so) brief holiday hiatus, the Book Club is back and eager to get those spines cracking.
They were scarred from use – battered, tear-stained, mascara-smeared, their jackets scuffed, spines cracked, margins scrawled in; some had flowers pressed between the pages, some bulged from being dropped in the bath.
I looked down from the window and saw myself splayed on the stone terrace, my back cracked and spine twisted – like the lime that's supposed to be in my drink?
I looked down from the window and saw myself splayed on the stone terrace, my back cracked and spine twisted — like the lime that's supposed to be in my drink?
Instead of taking someone down with Spine Crack, you're taking them down with a joke.
But the book is new, barely out, and I'm only a hundred pages in as of today, the spine still cracking when I open it.
Its spine was cracked from reading and re-reading.
