Imagining Fictional Characters

A series of fun photographs I took with dolls posed behind the partial figure on my book cover got me thinking about faces on book covers, and what we imagine when we read.

What do you see when you read?

Think of your favorite character: What, exactly, do you envision? Can you conjure an actual face? A body?

Peter Mendelsund writes in What We See When We Read:

Even if an author excels at physical description, we are left with shambling concoctions of stray body parts and random detail (author...