Did you ever consider taking a book on a blind date for Valentine’s Day? Well, the members of the Literature Society (Edebiyat Topluluğu) helped Bilkenters find true love, with another awesome project on February 13 in front of the A Building. They spiced up their fellow students’ reading lives by setting them up with blind dates in book form. Most of us have been seduced by a beautiful cover, and then been upset when the story fell flat. So the Literature Society, after picking out 200 books to be put up for sale, wrapped them in brown paper to conceal their titles, covers and other identifying information. On the front, a brief description of genre of the book was given; some covers had drawings that offered possible clues about the contents.
In this way, the Literature Society was saying, Don’t judge a book by its cover. There was also an underlying message that spoke to a serious social issue: Don’t buy a child bride; buy books instead.In this context, the proceeds from the sale–with all 200 books, plus 50 mugs, being sold–were donated to the Child Bride Project of the ICC (the International Children’s Center).