Weekly Question #11: What is Your Favorite Time & Place for Reading?

[Amy, Queen of Time]

What is your favorite time and place for reading?

This question refers to print books and eBooks, not audiobooks.

[Mark]

I love reading on my commute via Tube and bus. On the way to work it keeps my mind off it. On the way back I'm instantly 'at home'.

[Neville]

Mark, I am the same - love to read on the bus and train to and from work - it has the same effect for me. That gives me at least 2 hours a day reading.

[Mark]

Neville wrote: "Mark, I am the same - love to read on the bus and train to and from work - it has the same effect for me. That gives me at least 2 hours a day reading."

I've recently taken to reading at my desk at lunch. Of course, what The Man wants you to do is work at your desk. It raises eyebrows when I sit there reading.

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I like to read during the quiet hours of my night shifts as a security guard (while keeping an eye and ear opened). Then, I find my ereader most useful. For those who would worry about that, don't: I am watching a single door from behind a desk. Pretty hard to miss an incoming person in the dead of night.

[Mark]

Unless you wake up to realise that you've been dreaming of reading whilst guarding a single door, and that door is now open to reveal...

[Garrett]

Michael remodeled what was once a screened porch, into a beautiful room with windows filling two walls. We call it the sitting room, because it has become our favorite place to sit and read.

We look out on our wooded backyard where we keep bird and squirrel feeders stocked. Some of our tubby squirrels even have names. There is Bob, who somewhere along the way lost all but the last inch of his tail; Mr and Mrs Corn Cob, who live in the tree where we have a corn cob feeder; their oldest son, Big Buddha Boy, who eats the nib out of the corn and throws the rest down to be eaten by the smaller squirrels; Beatle Bailey, who likes to sleep stretched out with his legs hanging down, and Scar Butt, a very nice lady with a long scar down her right flank.

We have many different kinds of birds, including Painted Buntings (our favorite) that come to our seed feeder.

When we can stop watching the wildlife, we read. Michael reads very early in the morning before the sun is up. We both read in the evening.

[Amy, Queen of Time]

My favorite place for reading was a bench under a tree that I used to bike to beside the river. It was a peaceful spot with a nice view of Turkey Mountain (really just a hill) on the other side. Sadly, they took away my bench a decade or so ago to make "improvements". Oh well.

These days, I mainly read in a nice comfortable leather chair in my living room an hour before bedtime and then migrate to read in bed. I find that if I don't tire out my eyes by reading before bedtime that I lay awake for hours. Does anyone else have that problem or is it just me?

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Mark wrote: "Unless you wake up to realise that you've been dreaming of reading whilst guarding a single door, and that door is now open to reveal..."

Ha! Funny!

[Amy, Queen of Time]

Michel wrote: "Mark wrote: "Unless you wake up to realise that you've been dreaming of reading whilst guarding a single door, and that door is now open to reveal..."

Ha! Funny!"

People laugh most at those things that resemble themselves? No? Nah. Security guards never fall asleep while reading and guarding.

[Cheryl]

I can't fall asleep without reading, either. It might be only a few pages, if I had a big day, but I *always* at least open the book.

I have no comfortable place to read now except bed, but my mother has a wonderful deck overlooking a back yard that resembles a forest glade. Too bad she lives 2K miles away!

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Amy wrote: "Michel wrote: "Mark wrote: "Unless you wake up to realise that you've been dreaming of reading whilst guarding a single door, and that door is now open to reveal..."

Ha! Funny!"

People laugh mos..."

Actually, Amy, believe it or not but reading helps me keeping awake when I am tired. Must be the stirring up of the mind that good reading causes.

[Samantha]

I do a lot of reading at home sitting in the office room on the floor so I can play with/pet the dog and talk with my husband too. If I'm really engrossed in a book I'll just sit on the living room couch and disappear into it.

[Lincoln, Temporal Jester]

I live in a condo with not much of a front or back porch. The front is a reasonable sized slab of cement with steps going down to the sidewalk, the back is smaller and has a wooden deck with steps leading to a parking lot.

I have a really nice big camping chair I sometimes park in front, works well in the Spring and summer nights...to sit out there if its not to hot or cold. Sometimes the front is shaded to well and it gets cold so I sit out the back and its ugly and parking lot but the sun is usually direct and hot in the back when its cool and shaded in front.

Alternatively, I will read in my living room in my recliner couch...its comfy, however, I find if I read into the night with my glowing kindle and no other sound is in the room I will sometimes get scared, especially if the book is scary.

[Cheryl]

Lincoln, you sound like me, craving to be outside, willing to be less than perfectly comfortable to make it happen at least part of the year.

If I had a recliner I'd fall asleep, rather than get spooked, because I don't read scary books, because I spook too easily!