Where do you read?

[Ghuyuran]

Indeed, where do you read? Do you have an armchair near your fireplace or do you read on the bus? If you read everywhere, do you have favorite places? Perhaps on warm summer days you sit up under a tree in a park. Maybe you prefer small cafés or simply the warmth of your kitchen?

Are there specific books or poems you wish to read in a certain environment? Italian ballads on your balcony? Dostoyevsky during winter, covered in a blanket?

[Silas Thorne]

I often read in bed, tucked up warm. Poetry and Shakespeare I read aloud, pacing back and forth through my house, gesturing to invisible people. Sometimes I read on the computer.:)

[Mopey Droney]

I am very bad at this. When I read it must be either relatively silent (nowhere these days) or the sounds must be drowned out with music that is both thick enough to do so but also droning and monotonous enough not to distract me from the page--so basically shoegaze music. I sort of have a dependency on this now, and so if I am without my iPod it can be hard for me to read anywhere.

[LitNetIsGreat]

It always has to be quiet. Most of my normal day-to-day reading is done laid on my ridiculously expensive sofa (I didn’t pay for it, it was given to us) or in the bath. As it has to be quiet this normally means no one else is in the room. Most critical stuff for essays is done in the libraries either the university or central library. During the summer I often get out to the Peak District and read there, but summer was cancelled last year – we had nothing. :(

I would love my own armchair and open fire though, that would be perfect.

http://www.thepeakdistrict.info/fast/html/peak_views.html

[JBI]

On my bed, at the library, on the subway, in my study (my brother's old room that has been vacated), outside in my garden in good weather.

[saba]

I usually read in my reading chair in my bedroom with my cat resting on my lap. Around this time of year I have a nice cup of hot coffee by my side. I tend to carry a book with me when I'm out and about and read when I have time while I'm on the subway, in the break room at work, even sometimes while I'm lounging around at a friend's place. In the summer time it is very essential that I do a majority of my reading outside...I would say at night is when I tend to read my novels while at home, and when I'm out I tend to read shorter pieces such as poetry, essays, letters, or texts on art criticism/theory. At work I share an office and my fellow colleague tends to get annoyed that my books are scattered all over the office :lol:

[*Classic*Charm*]

In bed with a cat on my lap, in a specific chair in front of the fireplace with a cat on my lap, or my new place, a specific leather couch in a coffee shop on campus, since I have a break between classes:)

[Mag Master 21]

In bed while listening to Chopin.

[Saladin]

In bed while listening to Chopin.

:thumbs_up

[Dr. Hill]

Far left of the sitting room couch.

[Ghuyuran]

As someone already mentioned, certain persons need a silent environment because they are easily distracted. I'm one of them. I need my silence and that's why I read mostly in my bedroom or near my fireplace, when the fan is off. Between classes I go to the library and sit up at a desk at the far wall, where peace is mostly respected and where you are somewhat isolated. When the weather permits it, I often go read outside. I have a field behind my house and a forest in front of it so I'm lucky as I have all the peace I can get.

[mona amon]

In bed. :)

[Virgil]

In bed or in my study where I do happen to have a recliner arm chair. I'm on who needs a silent environment.

[Joreads]

If I am at home in my Study. Or I like to read at the beach

[mono]

I read in a few different environments: in bed, on the commuter train, recently in the bathtub (having felt a bit under the weather with the flu), or, my personal favorite, in a comfortable, tall, plush chair sitting in a corner of the second story of my favorite cafe, hovering over my right shoulder rests a gentle light.

[Zee.]

I like to read my books standing on my head or hanging upside down whilst tapping my feet.

[semi-fly]

Any comfortable chair I can put my feet up.

[Dara1409]

big fluffy chair in the sun room adjacent to my bedroom. has a nice view outside as well, though rather chilly

[angel92]

On the stairs of my house or outside in the park while listening to my music

[Janine]

my comfy bed....but it's not a particularly good idea, because lately I accomplish about two pages, and drift off to sleep.

[Niamh]

I read almost anywhere. Couch, chair, bed, floor, window ledges(depends where i am) luggage trollies, trains, planes, buses, in parks... I'm even known in work for reading while walking through swarms of people at customs and the baggage reclaim hall. :blush:

[Joreads]

Your talking about an inside window ledge right Niamh? If not you should rethink that one;)

[*Classic*Charm*]

I'm even known in work for reading while walking through swarms of people at customs and the baggage reclaim hall. :blush:

That's quite a skill! When I was younger, I would read while walking to or from my elementary school. I memorized the sidewalk patterns out of my peripherals so I knew where I was going. :blush::blush:

[NickAdams]

I am very bad at this. When I read it must be either relatively silent (nowhere these days) or the sounds must be drowned out with music that is both thick enough to do so but also droning and monotonous enough not to distract me from the page--so basically shoegaze music. I sort of have a dependency on this now, and so if I am without my iPod it can be hard for me to read anywhere.

I use to have a recording of a fan and would listen to it while I read.

[Niamh]

Your talking about an inside window ledge right Niamh? If not you should rethink that one;)
Yeah inside but If its big enough and low down enough i will! but its one of those depends on where you are kinda reading...

That's quite a skill! When I was younger, I would read while walking to or from my elementary school. I memorized the sidewalk patterns out of my peripherals so I knew where I was going. :blush::blush:

I'm good at moving around passengers. :p I do look up from time to time.

[mono]

I read almost anywhere. Couch, chair, bed, floor, window ledges(depends where i am) luggage trollies, trains, planes, buses, in parks... I'm even known in work for reading while walking through swarms of people at customs and the baggage reclaim hall. :blush:
Wow, I wish I could read while walking! I see people doing that from time to time; I even saw somehow reading while driving a car recently, and I switched highway lanes to get away from him fairly quickly, out of fear!
I guess I think, while walking, I would get too distracted by the book, and miss my destination, ending up miles away. :lol: While in nursing school, however, I studied so often, I could study my own handwritten notes when walking.

[Thespian1975]

I can read anywhere. Last night as I was reading backstage of a rehearsal with noise and people rushing around me. Someone said

"You can just pick up a book anywhere and block out what's going on"

It's sort of true.

BTW off topic, but don't you hate it when someone comes up when you are reading to ask "What you reading?"

[mono]

BTW off topic, but don't you hate it when someone comes up when you are reading to ask "What you reading?"
Yes, and it drives me crazy! :mad:
Even stranger, it will even occur while reading and listening to my iPod simultaneously. I do not consider myself the antisocial type, but how can I make it more apparent that I do not want to talk? :smash:

[Ghuyuran]

I do not consider myself the antisocial type, but how can I make it more apparent that I do not want to talk?

There is also an overly social type who has to talk to absolutely everybody, all the time.

[Yessie42]

As strange as it seems, I like to read on the bathroom floor. Whenever my family is looking for me, they automatically know thats where I am. Thats my favorite, but I also like the couch and the front steps of my house in the summer. I also read alot at band rehersal. When I read I tune EVERYTHING out.

[ALF]

everywhere

[Cayenne]

I mostly read on my couch, usually before I go to sleep. And also during the day whenever I have time and feel like reading. I can't read if there's any noise, so that's why I don't really read anywhere outside home.

[Niamh]

Wow, I wish I could read while walking! I see people doing that from time to time; I even saw somehow reading while driving a car recently, and I switched highway lanes to get away from him fairly quickly, out of fear!
I guess I think, while walking, I would get too distracted by the book, and miss my destination, ending up miles away. :lol: While in nursing school, however, I studied so often, I could study my own handwritten notes when walking.

One of these days i'm going to get too obsorbed in what i'm reading and cause an accident! :lol:
:eek: now THAT is irrisponsible! Driving while reading is dangerous! People are always asking me why i havent learned to drive and my response has always been, i cant read while driving and their are idiots out there. Commuting on Public transport contributes to my reading time.

[Joreads]

One of these days i'm going to get too obsorbed in what i'm reading and cause an accident! :lol:
:eek: now THAT is irrisponsible! Driving while reading is dangerous! People are always asking me why i havent learned to drive and my response has always been, i cant read while driving and their are idiots out there. Commuting on Public transport contributes to my reading time.

Niamh I am constantly running into things when reading - take it from me put the book down when walking up or down stairs. Trust me on this one.:lol:

[Aroungaschan]

For me, I read on my couch.
But ideal place for me to read would be at Starbucks,
although it is loud and crowded with peeps, I like to read
in lively environment with animated spirit. But if not,
then to a rain forest jungle where no human being has ever stepped on,
and just read and read.

[snhettich]

The places and milieu I prefer depends on my mood, and what I am reading. A brainless work, *cough* Twilight *cough* I can read anywhere, and I like to read my boring science books during breaks at lunch to get the reading overwith. Literature and interesting stuff, though, I like to read in a quiet environment, usually on my couch when my husband is at work, with some classical music playing in the background.

[Niamh]

Niamh I am constantly running into things when reading - take it from me put the book down when walking up or down stairs. Trust me on this one.:lol:

I've never bumped into anything or fallen when reading while going up and down stairs...because i do be so slow going up just in case! :p

[dafydd manton]

I have the happy knack of being able to switch my mind off to the surrounds, unless it is old women holding one of those "She says, so I says, so she says, so I says" conversations, where it is always vital to turn round before you say anything. "So I turns round and I says!"....I can read on the bus, in the house, in an airport terminal, in a cafe, just about anywhere. However, it has to be a good enough book to warrant it, first. About the only place I can't read is a dentist's waiting room, but I suspect that there is an element of drillphobia involved. Also quite like reading in the smallest room in the house - the only place you can lock yourself in, and nobody can get at you, at least for a while.

[Infinitefox]

On my bed.

[1n50mn14]

Almost everywhere: in bed, in the bathtub, ON the toilet (company often laughs at me, because I MUST have a book, and occasionally run around doing the 'pee dance' looking for a book), on the bus, at the bus stop, curled up in a corner of my closet (it smells nice, I have a beanbag chair in there, and a nice lamp. I like small spaces.), at thrift stores, curled up in their second hand armchairs, sitting by the river, sitting by the tracks, sitting on the fountain downtown, at work, etc. etc. etc.

[Aroungaschan]

ON toilet..
I quite do not understand how people can
read while sitting on toilet doing their business.
For one, I don't want anyone looking at me, I don't
want to look at anyone, I want to feel that I am alone.
Two, my business is done within 3 minutes. I drink lots
of water! :D
And reading while walking, is dangerous but I gotta admit,
it sure is fun! Its like you are being lead by a fairy and you
are mindlessly walking towards somewhere.

[Cailin]

Before I had a car, I used to love reading on public transport. (Find that the volume of reading I do has been adversely affected by my automobile acquisition!)

Now my location of choice is the bed - either mine or the spare bedroom. I miss the big armchair in my parents' house ....

[Niamh]

Cars are the murderers of reading time!!!

[Cailin]

Cars are the murderers of reading time!!!

True - but on the plus side, it has made access to my local library INFINITELY easier! :lol:

[Niamh]

:lol: my library is ony 15mins away by foot and i still havent been in over ten years.

[.closed.]

I am a London underground (my own personal timewarp) reader, basically I relieve the tedium of train journeys to and from work with literature. The underground has had some special literary moments e.g. tears, joys etc and even when I am down there my imagination is certainly somewhere wonderful, currently I am following the life and works of Leonardo Da Vinci. I also like winter days in cosy coffee shops and parks on cool summer evenings.

[LadyWentworth]

I used to read anywhere but now I have just developed the habit of reading in bed. It seems it is the only place where I can concentrate on what I am reading nowadays.

[hoope]

in bed mostly while headphone on sometimes .. or lying on a couch :-)

[Miray]

Almost anywhere, but mostly in the study room of my dormitory where I can always find silence and peace that I need. When I am out, I read on bus or in my favourite cafe where always a soft music is played and perfect lightings for reading are used. When I visit my hometown in winters, I go to my special place for my readings because it is unlikely to find anyone wandering around it. It is a little wharf in front of my house and has a wonderful view; blue sea and lovely ships:p I can read and read there for hours without any break:) It is not very convenient in summers, though, when people crowd to there to enjoy the sea. It is very annoying to have people around splashing water on me and my books:flare:

[Phangirl7]

In my room, sitting or lying on my bed, with either country or my Sirius Broadway station on in the background.
P.G.7.

[blondiemcfi]

However hard I try I can't seem to beable to read on the bus which is so irritating!!I'm wasting precious time sitting there and I can't read withut getting dizzy! My favourite place to read is the sofa with a blanket wrapped around and a nice cup of tea perched on my knee. I can be there for hours at a time, only getting up to keep turning on the kettle! :p

[Annabelle]

It is when I am alone. I have always longed to read outside in a garden or in open nature, but the place I live is not the type.

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

When the weather is right, there is a bench at my local park which reads 'A Man for All Seasons' (a reference to the play, I guess?), it's beautiful and right in front of a tranquil pond. Perfection. Besides that, I love to read aloud in my room (when I think no one is listening...). The public libraries are always the right choice as well.

[Scheherazade]

I used to be picky about where I read but recently, I am really struggling to find the time to keep up with my reading so I am really anywhere I can... literally. In the car, in bed, in waiting rooms, between classes, on the train... and not to mention in the bathroom!

[Janine]

Usually reading is the last thing I do; so it ends up being in bed, when the whole house is quiet and still. It seems that trying to read other places nowdays in impossible for me; can't concentrate fully. I do usually take a book along with me to the doctor's office but rarely do I actually end up reading it; either people are talking or the TV is on some soap opera, which is totally annoying.

Lately though, reading in bed is proving more and more problematic. I keep falling asleep after only a few pages. Last night I was listening to an audiofile of King Lear being played out with various actors; trouble is I did fall off to sleep and then suddenly got woken up by loud men shouting. I thought for a second it was real, which was totally alarming.

I like to go to a certain park in the summer or spring and sit in my beach lounge chair and read, if the park is quiet - weekdays are best; if I go on the weekends I take headphones to block out any annoying noises, but it is fairly serene there under the trees so I do enjoy reading there, plus you get some fresh air.

[blazeofglory]

In point of fact I read everywhere and I do not choose a particular place to write and I feel comfortable every where and it depends on the type of the book I have got.

[Tsuyoiko]

I feel naked if I don't have a book with me, so there's always one lurking in my rucksack. I read on the toilet, in bed, at the kitchen table, on journeys (I don't drive!), in waiting rooms, at my desk. I keep an e-book in notepad at my office computer so I can read during slow times and it looks like I'm working ;-)

I have two favourite places to read. During winter I read in my living room, reclining on the chaise longue under a specially mounted reading lamp. In summer I read in the back yard, with my pet rabbit running through the herbs, wafting scents of lavender and sage to my nostrils :D

Now the nights are getting lighter I've started walking home from work, so I plan to load some audiobooks onto an mp3 player so I can "read" as I walk. :thumbs_up

[mono]

I just realized I forgot to list my place at home. I have many comfortable chairs, and an even softer couch, hence I cannot read there without feeling too relaxed to read, but I feel quite certain that my window-sill in my living room was built for me - a corner where two windows meet, but a wall begins roughly 4 feet from the corner. I prop myself against the beginning of this wall, where my desk sits conveniently where a cup of coffee can fit, and I can gaze out the window, watching people floors below me.

[Babyguile]

Sometimes my brains default pathway seems to be to get distracted by everything except what I am/are supposed to be doing. It has to be in an environment where nothing much is going on visually and must be silent.

Therefore I always read in bed, morning and night, when I can, propped up on a pillow on the headrest. Starting with my back against it and then slowly but surely followed by my head as I slide down, getting more involved in the story. :thumbs_up

[thrillerchiller]

On whatever computer I'm at.

[maraki16]

everywhere. and i mean that:D

[subterranean]

Bed, couch, bench, bus stop, next to the heater, bus, train, plane, airport, once at a party which was so boring, waiting room....

[eyemaker]

Anywhere I feel comfortable..MY study table, bed, Library. (For some reasons I don't read while "pooping"- the pluming might leak! :D)

[underyourskin]

usually in bed, on the couch, or at the park

[dafydd manton]

We are fortunate in Sun-soaked England in that we have wonderful places called Pubs, where a man can sit there with a pint of Best Bitter and read what ever he fancies, and nobody will accuse him of being anti-social, ignorant or anything else. There are few things better than sitting in some riverside boozer, with your nose stuck in to a copy of your favourite read, with a glass full of malt barley and hops, and a beef sandwich. Civilisation!

[bounty]

Indeed, where do you read? Do you have an armchair near your fireplace or do you read on the bus? If you read everywhere, do you have favorite places? Perhaps on warm summer days you sit up under a tree in a park. Maybe you prefer small cafés or simply the warmth of your kitchen?

Are there specific books or poems you wish to read in a certain environment? Italian ballads on your balcony? Dostoyevsky during winter, covered in a blanket?

lots of places but my favorite, is in bed, just before lights out...

[Dr. Hill]

I like to read Dostoevskii in my bed after midnight, without having eaten anything in quite some time and deliberately depriving myself of sleep. Try it.

[jhonerliz]

on my bed until I fall asleep... :D

[Scheherazade]

We are fortunate in Sun-soaked England in that we have wonderful places called Pubs, where a man can sit there with a pint of Best Bitter and read what ever he fancies, and nobody will accuse him of being anti-social, ignorant or anything else. There are few things better than sitting in some riverside boozer, with your nose stuck in to a copy of your favourite read, with a glass full of malt barley and hops, and a beef sandwich. Civilisation!Which England do you come from?

:D

[PositiveEnergy]

Generally, in my tub, in bed, in waiting rooms/long lines, and on my sofa - surrounded by candles.

[dafydd manton]

Which England do you come from?

:DOne where irony runs deep in the soul, but to be fair, I have got a riverside pub in Sheffield of all places, where you can get a pint and a butty, and where nobody bothers you!

[Chava]

Bed, couch, bench, bus stop, next to the heater, bus, train, plane, airport, once at a party which was so boring, waiting room....

Stalking me? At least we read in the same places :)