Where do you do most of your reading?
Submitted by buber on Thu, 03/29/2001 - 10:59
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Where is the best place for you to get into a book? Feel free to describe that place, if you are so inclined.
Also, please tell me if your favorite place isn't on the list.
I guess I read everywhere - it's just a question of whether my daily life interferes too much with my reading! I nearly always have three or four books on the go at once. I usually carry a paperback in a pocket on the offchance that I'll find a spare moment or two. As a result I've been known to read between the carpark and the office and vice versa - thank God for underpasses and patient car drivers! I also used to commute daily to London - an hour each way - this got me through War and Peace in record time. My hero, however, is someone I read about (natch!) - he loved skiing - but hated the "wasted" time on the skilift. His skisuit didn't have enough space for a book, so he bought cheap paperback versions of his favourites and tore the books up into sections that he could read in a single chair ride. At the top of the run he threw the finished section away. After schussing down the mountain he retrieved the next section from his locker and gor back on the lift. No way to treat a good book, but I have to admire his singlemindedness.
I find myself reading on the kitchen counter while I cook. I have a 2 1/2 year old, it's very hard to find time now.
In bed. Lots of pillows, a couple of blankets. Television on but volume down. The only other place I read (I mean, really read) is on a plane. Reading in cars makes me sick.
I don't usually have a problem reading in the car. I guess I just get tunnel vision and don't see things moving by me. I prefer to read on the sofa, though. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by how many people read in bed, but I've read in several places that it's bad to engage in other activities in bed other than sleeping because it makes it harder to fall asleep on schedule. I used to read in bed in high school, but I don't anymore and I almost never get insomnia.
Reading in a (moving) car makes me sick too. But these days I do most of my reading in my car - after I've parked it. To make time for reading I leave for work about 40 mins early, get a takeaway breakfast, and eat and read in my car until it's time to start work. If I didn't make this time I'd read about 3/4 of a book per annum.
Please add, in the bathroom. Yes, you heard me, in the bathroom. I thought all families did this!
Done. And thanks for the suggestion. :)
I also enjoy reading in coffee shops and going to book shops where I can grab a random book and just start reading.
I tend to find those kinds of places too distracting. I spend more time look at whoever might be around than actually reading.
When I rode the bus, I really liked reading there, as I wasn't as distracted by the other people and it was some time in my day when I just plain couldn't do anything else, so nothing took my time away from reading.
Now, though, I guess I read whenever I get some time, and that means wherever I can (sofa, bed, airplane). I don't do as much now that I don't ride a bus.