exercise book• He leafed through a pile of documents until he found a sheet of papertorn from an exercise book.• In September 1930, on a day selected by his grandmother, he opened an exercise book and waited for inspiration.• She unfolded Marek's exercise book and began reading the spidery writing where she had been forced to stop.• The first goldstar in the exercise book came in 1953 too, when I was five.• This exercise book was, along with my diary, the only thing I could call my own.