I had nothing particular in mind and was simply looking at book covers for anything which sounded interesting and possibly something she might like.
I found myself staring down at the cover of a book called "The End of Men--And the Rise of Women", by Hanna Rosin. This sounded intriguing, so I picked the first copy off the shelf and opened it up.
Everything on the inside was upside down!
My first thought was well, this is what they mean by the end of men--men won't be able to read this. Out of curiosity, though, I picked up a few more copies and they were all conventional. I realized, then, that I had something different on my hands.
At this point, I thought I would simply turn it upside down and read it that way.
When I did this though, I discovered that not only was it upside down, it was backwards!
What you needed to do was go to the "back" of the book and read it in the opposite direction. Essentially, what had happened was that the wrong side of the pages got bound together
Okay, this disoriented and really screwed me up for a little while til I was able to wrap my head around the process, which basically didn't happen til much later.
It also greatly excited me! I actually ended up buying two copies of the book (you're welcome, Hannah!) so I could take them home for comparison. I also couldn't help but show it off to the total strangers around me in Indigo. The salesclerk actually offered to sell it to me cheaper but I was too excited for that, and paid full price.
I wrapped both books as a gift for Doralyn and we spent a lot of time showing it off to the Christmas company for the next few days. At this point, nether of us has had much of an opportunity to sit down and read anything, let alone an upside-down-backwards book, but the couple of pages I have managed to look at seem quite interesting.
Just need to decide whether I'm going to read it frontwards or backwards!
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