This Weeks Challenge is Escape. Depending on your current mood and headspace, or time in your life, this word can evoke different emotions and conjure a variety of images. Maybe the end of your semester is near, and you yearn for vacation and release: the desire to disappear and run away, the need to unplug and shut off.
For me escape is and always has been books. I was a very bookish child and mostly enjoyed school, I like reading and learning new things. For me real escape is into the worlds created by the science fiction and fantasy authors I like to read, to get lost in another place with magic or science, plots and derring do, thats how I escape.
And the best thing? You can go back anytime you read that book again!
I think this was taken before any earthquakes, it looks fairly tidy and organised 🙂 – click to embiggen
And this is very much after at least one big earthquake, everying is just jammed in where it will fit 🙂 Click to embiggen
Books and reading is the one thing in my life that I spent more time on than my photography 🙂 Any one else out there a SF / Fan reader?
Learning to See Light 
Very nice interpretation.
Thanks, Im a thinking outside the square kinda girl 🙂
I feel the same about reading, nothing better : )
Esp this weekend where winter is starting to make its presence felt with cold wet rainy days. Nothing nicer than curling up on the sofa with a good book 🙂
I’ve been reading Sci-Fi since I was about 8!
Personally I am of the opinion that all childrens books are fantasy so we all started out reading it 🙂
I’m with the Cardinal…great interpretation. I struggle with the challenges unfortunately, maybe I’m too literal. I also love to read. I’m finally reading The Hobbit after watching the movie last weekend. Reading has always been my escape since I was young reading Heidi and Little House on the Prarie books.
The Hobbit is a lovely story, I always struggle with LOTR because its so depressing. And LONG! I also read all the Heidi books and Anne of Green Gables 🙂
Some challenges I struggle with and simply don’t post about those but this one was easy for me because I have always known that books were my escape 🙂
I only saw the LOTR movies and though they were great the overwhelming evil was hard to handle. Well, it’s lovely having reading in common with you as well as a love for photography!
I cook and bake and craft too 🙂
And am I remembering correctly that you live in New Zealand??? I don’t love to cook unfortunately, I bake gluten free stuff for me to live on and I DO CRAFT! Yay…I make cards and used to scrapbook a lot. Now I’m doing a pocket scrapbook of my grandson (sort of like Project Life) and then I’m thinking I’ll go digital.
Yes I live in NZ 🙂 I have gluten and dairy free friends so have had to adapt a few recipes to be useful in all social situations. Have you seen my quilling and bobbin lace posts on my Handcrafts page?
I’ll go check it out now.
If you haven’t read The Wolf’s Hour by Robert McCammon or Watchers (the book, not the movie) by Dean Koontz, those are 2 of my favorites. http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/the_wolfs_hour.html
http://www.deankoontz.com/watchers/
Hmmm my other reply didnt seem to come thru – yes I have read and greatly enjoyed Watchers but not the other one which I will have a look at. In return I offer you the Ukiah Oregon series by Wen Spencer
http://www.goodreads.com/series/49085-ukiah-oregon
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Reading a book does get me out of this world and into the fiction world in the book! Nice thought..
Thanks, you can see from the many books that I read a lot!
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Love your interpretation of escape – realizing, of course, books have been my lifelong escape from the time I was in first grade. They truly opened up a larger and wider world to me.
My mother taught me to read when I was about 4, and I havent stopped since 🙂 I dont watch much TV, I would rather read.
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The first image of the book is stunning… I had the same thought you did, only problem is I do most of my reading on my kindle and my laptop. Those weren’t things I wanted to take pictures of so I went right out of the box… Great take!
Thanks Marie, that first image I took for another challenge a while ago, the theme was paper but I thought it appropriate with what I did here. Done with natural afternoon light with the book sitting on top of my TV by the window 🙂
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I would love to escape into your bookshelves. 🙂 SFF fan here too!
Im happy to make any recommendations, ask away 🙂
Thanks! I clicked on your pictures and can read a lot of titles. 🙂 I recognize quite a few and am making notes for to more to pick up!
Should I be scared by how many of the books in those photos I can identify without enlarging the photos?
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Reading is and always has been my favorite kind of escape. Of course, if I can escape to my escape place and read as well, it’s even better!
janet
You just reminded me, I never said where my favourite place is to read! Its on the sofa, snuggled up under a blankie with the cat in front of the fire, with a cup of mexican hot chocolate hot and steaming!
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