Reading is best when I’m all by myself or at least when it’s quiet around me.
I am 100% not a person who would go to Starbucks to read a book. Too much noise, too many other people, and Starbucks is just not as comfy as home.
I mean, I do plenty of reading in waiting rooms and such. But the prompt is talking about favorite places, and waiting rooms are most certainly not my favorite places!
When the weather is nice, I love reading outside, preferably with no shoes on.
I guess my criteria for ideal reading conditions are:
- comfy
- no other people (or at least not a bunch of noise, and I definitely do not want anyone trying to talk to me! Can anyone read and hold a conversation at the same time?)
- outside, with good weather
So…a quiet, comfy deck chair on a sunny, 75 degree day checks all the boxes.
In cold weather, though, I enjoy reading in my bed as long as there are plenty of pillows to prop my neck up. And of course, I can easily be barefoot in bed (an important component of being comfy is having no shoes or socks on! 😉 )
Well, this is an easy one: bed. Always bed. When I was a kid, I slept on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed and I used to sometimes let the covers from the upper bunk hang over the edge to make a little cave of my bottom bunk so I could lie in there and read with my reading light even in the middle of the day.
Drove my dad crazy, but here I am, forty years old, and still drawing the curtains and turning on the light beside my bed to read. 🙂
I just walked into my sons’ (windowless) room to find the middle son lying on his bed with the overhead light off, reading by the light of his reading lamp. Definitely my son.
Anywhere. Anywhere I can read is my favorite place to read.
I do really enjoy reading in a tractor or combine cab though. It’s an enclosed space, bright, alone, quiet … all the good things.
I am blessed to live in a suburb of San Diego. It is super expensive to live here & I think because the weather is nearly perfect year round. Some rain & “colder” temps during the winter, but it’s pretty sunny all the other months. I read outside also. I am too easily distracted to try to read in a public place. When the weather isn’t cooperating, I also read while lounging on my couch.
My favorite would also probably be a deck chair out on our back deck, but I don’t get to do that too often. (I usually am in the house with kids sleeping when I get to read.) My favorite inside place would be the living room chair on the right side of the room. I kind of claimed it as a “nursing nest” 4 years ago and it’s been my favorite chair ever since. My 6yo has also claimed it as her favorite, though, meaning I give it up most of the time she’s awake. 🙂
Since you detailed my favorite place to read already, I’ll put my second favorite….at the water’s edge on the beach with my toes in the sand and chair legs dug in. The sound of the water drowns out all of the surrounding noise and it is like being in your own book reading beach bubble 🙂