“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours” 
Alan Bennett - The History Boys: The Film

Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honore' Fragonard

Reading women, circa 1900 ,Oil painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Jacquelyn Bischak, Reading Women