Recently Simon T at Stuck in a Book set a challenge. To find a picture that represents your reading tastes – he’s collating entries here. I thought for a while about this, and came up with two pictures – a cheat I know, but I couldn’t find a singleton.
This represents a lot of things to me …
- A nice corner to curl up and read in.
- Comfort – add a cup of tea and a cushion or two and it’s complete.
- Red – my favourite colour (except I’m in an emerald green phase at the moment). Red is such an exciting, emotional colour, and I like exciting books.
- Design - This oversized Conran ‘Matador’ armchair is just beautifully designed. Just like a well-designed cover will draw me in.
- Quirkiness – It’s oversized, a little bit daring. I do love a dose of quirk in my reading!
- It’s also perfectly formed, with no unecessary additions – Order – something I aspire to, but fear I’ll never attain.
- This is the armchair for me – it’s on my wishlist!
But there is another less ordered side to my reading tastes…
This photo from an article in the Mirror about the average contents of a woman’s handbag represents …
- Everything bar the kitchen sink – My books are wide-ranging with a bit of everything somewhere.
- Disorder – viz the TBR mountains!
Please note I don’t read the Mirror (I just googled ‘Everything bar the kitchen sink’ and it came up with this article).
It was so much fun thinking about this, do have a go and link back to Simon.
Great photos and reasoning behind them! I’m already a little in love with the first one…
My friend and I, whenever we write letters to each other, ALWAYS list the contents of our bags – somehow this always leads on to amusing stories behind the items.
I saw that armchair before in a magazine and mentally tagged it, and luckily it came to me when thinking about this challenge.
I wouldn’t know where to start with my bag – it’s big and always chocka-full!
Oh you made me laugh! I’ve been using small handbags for a while now trying to stop myself from lugging too much around with me. Maybe I should apply that to my tbr piles. A smaller bag doesn’t work though and neither does trying to restrict the books I feel I have to have.
I can’t think of a picture to show my reading tastes – I think I’d need a suitcase – oh there’s an idea!!
Margaret – I cannot be doing with little handbags. Apart from the fact that they’re definitely not my style, I have to have all my bits and pieces. Besides you have to be able to fit a decent sized book in!
Yesterday I tried pruning the TBR piles – only managed to get rid of 2 books!
LOL – and how many hours did it take you to find those 2?
Love your picture! I love the ecclectic feel of your photo, but mine would have to have some very weird objects in their too…
Gosh – the second picture looks just like the contents of my handbag (that i am always intending to clean out but doubt I ever will). I also like red and wear it in defiance of having red hair…
I think that this has been such an interesting challenge, I have really enjoyed reading everyone’s contributions.
Thanks for sharing
Hannah
It has been fun hasn’t it. I liked your picture too – I don’t know Spencer’s work very well, and haven’t seen that picture before.
Be careful sitting on that chair, though, it looks like the floor could collapse any moment!
Very good illustrations. I can’t dream up any visual image to illustrate my reading but will ponder this as I drive to my appointment this morning!
Just seen your pic Lizzy and it’s a brilliant one!
Im going to take a photo – shame I didnt get one of me reading on holiday really.
Great pictures, I found it really hard to pick just one but in the end I did. I should have gone for something with lots of random objects in it… drats.
But you justified your choice too which was great! I really couldn’t pick just one – If there had been a big red handbag in the handbag contents, that would have done it, but I didn’t have time to photoshop anything.
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