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Where is your favorite place to read a book?


How much I read at a time depends on how much time I have and how reluctant I am to put a book down. I've been known to read an entire Saturday, if I have a book I can't put down. I'll often put off housekeeping and other "unnecessary" tasks to read.



I bought a notebook so this year I can record the books I read. My goal is at least a book a week. :)
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I agree about the car sick, plus I'm usually the one who likes to drive. Audio books have been great. I need to work on the part about keeping my hands dry...lol.
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I love reading in my bed. There is nowhere I can read but in my own bedroom. Cause I am easily distracted by something or someone.
Music is ok but not too loud.
I never divide how much pages I should read to finish it. I love reading a lot and enjoy my reading-time so I don't need to estimate how long I need to finish it.
Before I start reading I often get stomach ache cause I am too excited with the book. Weird but it's real :))


Silence seems to be the theme and I agree though if I'm in a waiting room or at my daughter's swim meet--noisy places--I can still read and concentrate.

To this day, especially in the winter, I snuggle under the quilts and read myself into oblivion.

I wish I could read in the car. It seems everytime I try I feel nauseous. Reading at a swim meet that goes on forever....that's priceless as well.


Reading in the bathtub sounds SO relaxing, Dava. I think I'll try that sometime! =D


i enjoyed it and it is now my favorite place to read.

no matter whether it is a quite place or noisy
I don't get much time these days , so I read on my way home from school,that is if I get a seat in the bus !

downtown Cincinnati, she rides the bus and gets in 2 hours a day of reading. One hour there and one back and she doesnt have to fight traffic. Very peaceful for her soul. Pamela



Noise, quiet, inside, outside, moving or still matters not at all to me. I even walk and read which really freaks people out. :D
Once when my family went on vacation, I read while standing in line at Disney World. I was the only person in line NOT bored out of my mind. Nothing like waiting 2 hours for a 10min ride.




Loon yodels from somewhere "out there" on the waters. An oriole tag team singing back and forth from the way-up heights of the silver maple, singing the way they do, all fluid and perfect. Black coffee next to me on the little plastic table. Black dog next to me, too -- preferably asleep or staring all mesmerized-like out at the water. Damselflies and dragonflies lighting on my legs or arms to keep me company for a bit.
Of course that's in the summer and, being in the Hemisphere Norté, I can assure you there's not an Adirondack (much less a lake) in sight at the present.



No, seriously. You don't have to read it. Just saying, is all.
The other odd thing is how you read certain authors better in certain seasons. Like I like to read the Russians in winter and Hemingway in summer. Don't ask me why.



By George (hopefully not Bush, though), you've got it, Debbie! I think my winter readings of all the Russians long ago had much to do with winter and snow. Plus most of the Russkies are BIG (their books, not them), so you need more time, and often there's less on the docket in winter. Depending.
Yeah, the Hemingway theory works too. I think of The Sun Also Rises and that great scene after everyone's fought and Jake swims in the ocean off of San Sebastian. Or of Islands in the Stream which opens with that lovely Caribbean idyll...
P.S. Tommygirl: Work kitchen table? Meaning...?


Yes, the majority of books fly no matter what's flying outside -- rain, snow, monkeys, you name it.
Prabha -- I read Pride and Prejudice as a senior in high school (this was during the William McKinley Administration). It was under duress as it was assigned, so I actually forget if I liked it or loathed it.

I read pride and prejudice in high school.Till now i love it. It’s my all time favorite romantic novel. I like this type of romantic novels as well as feature, non fiction, literature, philosophical.............. Actually I love to read all kinds of books. Reading is my only prayer. And I try to do it when I get time. No matter where it is. But usually I love to read in my tiny little bed.
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