FD is contemplating what to do for this year’s public library altered book benefit. People with real skills do amazing altered books: painted, carved, embellished… FD has few skills, so last year the did these altered books:
Trapped in the Mauve Decade which was a copy of the old (1926 but reprinted often) and weird work of criticism by Thomas Beer that had been totally encased in a mauve and pink knitted cover.
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Altered Red and the Black which was a copy of Stendhal’s novel in which everything except “red” and “black” were scribbled out and every instance of “red” and “black” were circled in either red or black. It took a long time, but since FD had never read the novel, it was not totally boring!
So, what to do this year??