Poet Mark Grist may have said it best when asked 'what do you look for in a girl' to which he responded, 'I like a girl who reads'. It would seem that Gabriele Pennacchioli shares that sentiment through this poignantly beautiful illustration of a girl in the library. For too long women with a penchant for books have been typecast as nerds or bookish types. But just look at the beauty and intensity of passion captured within this representation of femininity.
For too long women have been broken by the barbie doll mentality, we have been discouraged from finding pleasure within the written word, it's with images such as these that we can start to shape the way that femininity and intelligence is viewed from the outside. Whilst her pose is demure, it's 100 percent natural.