Elliptical Reading, Aberdeen, 2021 2021
At Aberdeen Central Library visitors can find books which have been chosen by local readers, re-bound by the artist, and re-shelved by the readers in new places outside their usual categories. An insight into the reader’s choice is included on a bookmark in each book.
Books (in order of appearance): Jean Eyre by Charlotte Bronte translated into Doric by Sheena Blackhall and Sheila Templeton chosen and read by Annie Reid // The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish chosen and read by Noon Salah Eldin // The Mont Blanc Massif by Gaston Rebuffat chosen and read by Doug Cameron // American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis chosen and read by Dallas King // Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 poems by Charles Hamilton Sorley chosen and read by Eleanor Campbell // The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K LeGuin chosen and read by Svetlana Panova // Joseph Knight by James Robertson chosen and read by Margaret Forbes // Dzieci z Bullerbyn by Astrid Lindgren chosen by Halina Ficon // Sunset Song by Lewis Grass Gibbon chosen and read by James Tocher.