I immediately thought of Escher when I wanted to depict my taste for quirky, slightly surreal novels - I like that the image is also very domestic. This is quirky but not macabre, and still focused upon the home: perfect.
Here's a list of links to follow up, to see other people's choices - I'll keep adding to the list as people send me the links! Do let me know if you've tried to find your Picture that Paints A Thousand Books...
Agnieszkas Shoes
At Pemberley
Bibliophiliac
The Blue Cabin
Book Bath
Book Snob
A Bookish Space
Books Before Breakfast
A Book Worm's Haven
A Borrower Be
The Captive Reader
Cardigan Girl Verity
Chasing Bawa
Cornflower
David Nolan
Desperate Reader
Farm Lane Books
A Few of My Favourite Books
Find Your Next Book Here
Gaskella
Hannah Stoneham
Harriet Devine
Kiss A Cloud
Light, Bright, and Sparkling
Lizzy Siddal
Mental Foodie
Morgana's Cat
My Porch
Off at a Tangent
The Oliva Reader
Overdue
Paperback Reader
Pattinase
Random Ramblings
A Rat in the Book Pile
Ready When You Are, C.B.
Roses Over a Cottage Door
Savidge Reads
Shelf Love
Tampa Bookworm
Tartan Wallpaper
Tea Time With Marce
The Treacle Well
We Be Reading
Winston's Dad
i did mine today on blog ,a beuys piece ,great meme thanks stu
ReplyDeleteJust did mine - I cheated too and chose 2 pictures, but it was great fun. My link
ReplyDeleteFinally decided on mine: http://thecaptivereader.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/simon-says/
ReplyDeleteI couldn't resist playing along...thanks for the inspiration!
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http://pattinase.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun idea.
http://tartanwallpaper.blogspot.com/2010/06/picture-this.html
ReplyDeleteThere's mine. Difficult decision, that one.
Great idea this wonderful photo journeying through the land of blogs!
ReplyDeleteAnother review I will look forward to reading would be "An Experiment With Time" by J.W. Dunne, which you mentioned back in March.
It certainly has caught my attention!
Will have to order through the world cat inter-library as it does not seem readily available.
I truly love the concepts and conversations around simultaneous time.
And am now re-reading Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe".
like this Simon - and yes it is still domestic as it is an interior (albeit an odd one, but as I think Jack Karouac commented - the ones for me are the mad ones)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great challenge this has been, so interesting seeing everyone's pictures and reading their reasons
thanks for sharing
Hannah
There's an award for you at http://ordinaryreader.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteDianne
This was quite a difficult one!
ReplyDeletehttp://chasingbawa.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/picture-perfect/
Great Idea! Here is my Link to Books
ReplyDeleteHere's mine.
ReplyDeletehttp://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/tss-a-picture-paints-a-thousand-words/
Thanks for the idea. It was fun to do. Glad to see you managed to convincingly tie in some Escher. Escher occurred to me too, but only because I like it! But couldn't think of a rationale and had to regretfully let it go.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting exercise. I've posted mine on my blog: www.theolivareader.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteFinally finished mine! But I kind of had trouble finding one image...you might think I have negated the spirit of the challenge. I offer my apologies in advance.
ReplyDeleteOops, here is the link:
ReplyDeletehttp://myporchblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/picture-paints-thousand-words.html
Hi Simon, nice to make your acquaintance. I've posted my image at http://aborrowerbe.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store/.
ReplyDeleteI've finally chosen mine --
ReplyDeletehttp://webereading.com/2010/06/picture-to-explain-thousands-of-words.html
I loved this exercise! I found it very hard, but I finally settled on an image:
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Great challenge, Simon, which I found thrugh Jackie at Farmlane Books. Here's mine:
ReplyDeletehttp://agnieszkasshoes.blogspot.com/2010/06/all-my-books-in-one-picture.html
I've seen this posted on a few blogs but seeing it at Jackie at Farm Lane Book Blogs finally pushed me over the edge to do this too.
ReplyDeleteHere is My Link
Thanks for the great idea!
Such an interesting challenge! I shall have to go in search of a photo ...
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JHS
Colloquium
This is such a great idea! I have posted my picture here
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I am very late to this party, but i posted my picture (s) today.
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I found out about this challenge just recently, and I think it is a great idea. I've blogged the challenge here at my blog
ReplyDeleteWhat an inspiring challenge - I just had to join in:
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Thanks for coming up with the idea!!!