If Reading was an Image - This is mine

I saw this post over on Random Ramblings and wanted to participate. Go over to participate and to read Jillian's response and see her image. http://randombookishramblings.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-reading-was-image.html

Simon at Stuck in a Book challenges his readers to choose a picture that sums up their reading tastes in books. The catch is, we can NOT use photos that have images of books, reading, and/or literary characters.

Dark Corners - An Oil Painting

This was perfect for me. I love variety and I believe this painting will get numerous statements on what the beholder feels when looking at it.

My reading taste would consist of thrillers, psychological mysteries, suspense, adult fiction, emotional sad stories that sometimes have a glimmer of hope. I found this image from google by putting in glimmer of light. I love books that make me have a reaction, good or bad and somtimes put me on the edge of my seat. I even think the shadow could be looked at as a ghost, could be her demons or could be an angel going to take care of her. And what is she looking at? This feeling in books is why I love to read, what is next, I have to know, let me guess, oh I was wrong, yes I knew it, etc....

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This is what the artist wrote under the painting and immediately I knew this is my choice.

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Reference - http://www.johnslaby.com/dark_corners.htm

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These paintings are meant to convey feelings of fear and distress and are suggestive of abuse. Most of the paintings of are my models and they show a young, frail woman within a dark room. The figure is painted in realistic detail and the background is a minimalist wash of black paint over a gray ground. The overall effect is one of isolation and loneliness. In most of the paintings, there is no threatening object present. We only see the isolated figure. But the threat does appear, albeit indirectly, in "Intruder" and "Haunted". However, not all the paintings are dark, as there is some sense of hope in "Glimmer of Light" which is made manifest in "Recovery" and the final "Liberation."

What about you? If you could sum up your reading taste, or your reading life in general, through a picture, what would it be?

I enjoyed this idea, what do you think?

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