In light of my participation in the Novel Challenge/MS Readathon*, I thought it fitting to pay homage to some awesome people who love to read.
A while back I came across this very cool tumblr blog, Awesome People Reading, and couldn’t help but spend more time than I really should have clicking through the pages admiring photos of famous and inspirational people reading their favourite paperbacks, hardbacks, comics and newspapers.
Below I’ve attached a few of my fave pics, but definitely head on over to the full site to see many many more.
* I have so far raised $180 so thank you to you special people (you know who you are) for your contributions. I stayed up quite late last night finishing George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, which was, by the way, excellent! Now on to book 3, Friday’s Child by Ian Kennedy Williams.
Marilyn Monroe
Michael Caine
Sid Vicious
Gregory Peck and Mary Badham
- Elizabeth Taylor
James Dean and Marcus Winslow
Alfred Hitchcock
~storytelling nomad~
Not sure Hitchcock thinks much of those birds, lol.
Goodness, I don’t blame him! Thankfully the movie was far from dull!
I love the photo of Michael Caine! Maybe it’s the perspective, but it looks like a giant newspaper.
Me too. And you’re right, it does look like an awfully big newspaper!
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Marilyn reading…how to make books sexy. ;)
Indeed!
I really like the photo of Gregory Peck and Mary Badham. It’s sweet. :)
Very sweet. They were so fantastic together in To Kill a Mockingbird too.
Thanks for sharing these…pretty soon it’ll be photos of celebrities with their e-readers! lol
Don’t say that or I’ll have nightmares! ;)
The one with Gregory Peck just makes me smile. :) Hell, they all do! What a cool discovery of all these pictures!
And is it me, or did Michael Caine look something like David Bowie back in the day?
There are sooooo many over at the Awesome People Reading website; it’s insane! And I think you might be onto something with the Caine/Bowie lookalike!
Out’a sight!
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