Sunday Conversation Topic 10/5

[Jason]

What is your favorite weather - location reading combination.

[Theresa]

Snowy or rainy days indoors in my blanket fort.

[Holly R W]

I read daily throughout the year - primarily at home. I have a favorite spot there with a bright reading lamp. Weather doesn't factor into this. Recently, my husband has taken to sitting in the same spot with a book and I don't like it! (Have to laugh at myself for this.) I then go to our den to read. (See, I can be flexible.)

Yesterday, the weather was glorious here. I often take the book that I'm reading to a park. After hiking, I sit on a park bench and read.

[NancyJ]

Today it’s gorgeous so I was just reading outside on the deck. The couch on my back porch is very comfy about half the year. In the winter I sometimes sit by the fire place, but that couch is too soft to stay there very long. When I get migraines I go to my bedroom and listen to a book in the dark. And I listen at bedtime with a timer.

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

Indian Summer, after a good rain and with my camera handy

[Flo]

I love the idea of reading indoors with tea and a blanket and a burning candle when it's pouring outside...or inside a really nice library with a fireplace.

I do have a little reading nook with an armchair right next to the window, and sometimes I do make tea or put a candle on to go with my reading, but most of the time, I just read on the couch next to my dog. Sometimes in the summer/when it's warm, I think about going outside to read in the park, but I actually rarely end up doing that because I like to bring my dog with me and he does not love warm weather lol.

[Robin P]

Indoors - outdoors is always too hot, too cold, too windy or too buggy. - usually on the couch or bed

On the other hand, I can walk outside and listen to an audiobook, mostly spring and fall.

[Rose]

So many good places/reasons to read.....

Summer - by the pool or at the beach or better yet IN the pool. I have 2 different floaties bought specifically for their comfortableness while reading books - one more horizontal and one more chair-like sitting

Spring - on my deck - enjoying the weather and waiting for the pool to be warm enough to read while floating IN the pool.

Fall - on my deck - enjoying the cooler weather and less humidity

Rain - in my sunroom looking out the windows to see/hear the rain in the pool/backyard

Hiking/walking - audiobooks with my Shokz headphones so I can still hear nature/safety but also hear the books

Couch for reading in the evening.

Blankets/jammies if cold outside

I don't read with any food or drinks (not a coffee/tea drinker)

Oh - just also remembered I have a hammock outside too - love to read while in the hammock watching/listening to the backyard birds - and snuggle in with blankets when it is chilly out. Usually too hot to hammock read in the summer -but I this reminded me it time to start heading to the hammock with a book now the weather has changed enough to enjoy. And decide - read on the deck or in the hammock??

[LibraryCin]

Theresa wrote: "Snowy or rainy days indoors in my blanket fort."

I was going to say snowy, but pretty much this! Maybe with a cup of hot chocolate beside me.

[Kristen]

I recently had to put my comfy chair into storage, my boyfriend moved in and we needed the space. I thought snuggling on the couch would be good enough, but I miss my chair :-(.

[Karin]

Indoors, always, for the same reasons as Robin. Plus now that I need reading glasses but use Maui Jims I don't want to pay to get an Rx pair of those.

[Joanne]

I have a double comfy chair in my living room that looks out the picture window to the front yard. I have not sat there and read all summer! Time to rectify that as the cooler weather moves in, with winter not far behind.

[KateNZ]

I follow the sun around the house, so I am in a warm patch, preferably with a purring ginger snuggle rug beside or on me.

I have plans though. We have a funny thin ‘study’ area, which we don’t actually use as a study. It’s mostly optimistically occupied by a large desk which is not the workstation it was intended to be but instead a dumping ground for anything without an immediate home. But it would be a perfect room for a proper reading nook once I get rid of the desk. I am happily re-imagining the space …

[Theresa]

I mostly recline to read - coach or bed - mostly because I sit at a desk for long hours. Since pandemic and moving my office home during lock in then permanently, my downtime and relaxation reading ismostly in the bedroom. It happened gradually,mbut since I have a one bedroom NY apartment, halfmy living room is my office, not some area I can cloe the door and ignore. My bedroom is thus the retreat from all things work!

[LibraryCin]

KateNZ wrote: "I follow the sun around the house, so I am in a warm patch, preferably with a purring ginger snuggle rug beside or on me. .."

LOL! Like a cat!

[KateNZ]

Indeed! - specifically my Wilbur (big floof that he is) … never happier than when keeping me company with a book after a good dinner. And covering me with fur at the same time. I swear I could knit a new cat from what he’s shed in the last week …