Readathon Hour 20: Picture It! Mini Challenge

Hello, Readathon participants, and congratulations on making it to Hour 20! You're almost there!

Unless you've chosen to focus on scriptless comics, you've spent the day immersed in words, words, words. This hour, I'd like you to step away from words long enough to find a picture that somehow relates to your current read.

Choose an image that makes you think of the main character, an important plot twist, the book's theme, the setting, or any other story-related element that triggers your imagination. I ask that you don't use cover or interior art or a still from a film adaptation--that's just too easy, yeah?--but anything else is fair game.

Please make sure your selection is free and legal to use, and be sure to credit the artist or photographer. Flickr's creative commons archive is a great place to search for images in the public domain, as is the WANA Commons.

Once you have an image, tell us how it relates to your book via a blog post, tweet, or Instagram post. If you don't use social media (or if it's just too late in the 'thon to worry about crap like that), you can post your explanation and a link to your picture in the comments here.

An example: earlier today, I read THE LAST GOOD KNIGHT, a serial by Tiffany Reisz. The serial made me think of knights, for obvious reasons, so I hunted through Flickr's creative commons and found a trio of fearsome Lego knights photographed by Andrew Becraft:

Now it's your turn! Make sure you comment below with a link to your blog post, tweet, or Instagram account. One randomly selected participant will win a set of eight vintage postcards featuring gardens from around the world, plus 50 cancelled stamps with plants on them.

The challenge will run until the end of the Readathon. I'll contact the winner whenever I wake up. :)