This week Liana Bull challenged me to "how about making a photo of your latest reading material - especially if it illustrates something magical or fantastical." Well, the books I have been reading this past week or so included a violent mystery (Neon Rain by J. L. Burke), a heart warming novel (A Man Called Ove by F. Backman), a couple memoirs about dead/dying parents (The End of Life Book club and They Left Us Everything), a novel about the secrets of a marriage (Swimming Lessons by C. Fuller), a young adult thriller/mystery/fantasy (The Rising by H. Graham and J. Land), a novel about WWII France (Suite Francaise by I. Nemirovsky) plus assorted depressing articles about climate, health care reform, politics and a dam in Iraq that is built on porous rock so it might collapse at any time. Absolutely none of these selections inspired any photos. So I decided to illustrate a scene from a magical and fantastical book that may or may not actually yet exist. In this tale, deep in the forest, a miniature but ferocious goose guards a magical ring that is the key to ... well, we'll have to read (or write) the book to find out.
Interestingly, the word for today is "read." Thinking about that list of books, I wonder that I have time to do anything other than read from morning until night. I am really baffled at how I could possibly find the time to read so much.
So where DO you obtain all that extra time? Mine vanishes when I sit down to read and I find, when Ifinally emerge, I have missed the opportunity to do anything more productive.
I do love to have a connection with people who read!! Its one of my really good things for everyone to do - children, marrieds, oldies! It gives you an insight in expression and words necessary to communicate! In this composition I can see there is mystery and determination involved!
