Victorians! discussion

Do you have a special reasdon chair? Something leather in a well-stocked library, with a handy side table? Or a hammock? Curled in a ball on the couch? Stretched out on a blanket? Nestled under covers in bed? Where is your favorite place to read?

At the kitchen table each evening as the day is winding down.

It depends. I always read in bed at night. If I read during the day, there are several places that vary due to weather or mood.

I'm quite fond of reading in parks and just various places outside! Or cuddled up on the sofa with a hot chocolate and the fairy lights turned on when it's stormy.

My screened-in porch in summer, and on the sofa in winter, preferably with a fire going in the fireplace.

Spring, summer, autumn-on a small second floor balcony overlooking our street, surrounded by the leafy branches of a black walnut tree, with a blanket when it's cool. The special treat is that people walking by are rarely aware that I'm there, so I often overhear little snippets of conversations, little glimpses into other lives. Latest example was clearly a chance encounter between 2 British expats discussing Brexit results-his mother was pleased, her family was very upset.

Winter-sofa, cozy blanket, fire going, mug of coffee in the morning or tea in the evening on the table beside me.

I also love reading out on the balcony, when it's not too hot... Even better, on the beach or in the grass in some secluded part of a park where nobody goes past... Most of the time though I read in bed.

Renee wrote: "Where is your favorite place to read? .."

Wherever I am when I have few free moments for reading. At my desk, in any of the chairs in the living room, at my barstool where I eat breakfast, in bed, in the car waiting in the ferry line, in the car while my wife is in shopping at Kohl's for grandchildren's clothes, on the ferry, in the doctor's (dentist's, etc.) waiting room, doesn't matter. Wherever I have a place to sit or lie and enough light to read by. Don't need to add whenever I have a book handy, because I always do. I drove my sister, who was visiting us, to the ferry this morning, just to drop her off, twenty minutes to town, twenty minutes back, didn't even turn off the engine, just let her out at the ferry dock, but I had taken a dead tree book plus my Nook loaded with hundreds of books and my reading glasses with me just in case. One never knows when one will get a flat tire and need something to read while waiting for AAA to arrive.

Edit: add to above favorite places, in my hammock, where I was reading yesterday afternoon while watching the whales go by and the crows chasing the eagles away.

I can't compare with reading while watching whales...but we have a deer feeder out by the tree line, and sitting out on the porch watching the antics of deer vs. racoons competing for the feed can slow down the reading considerably :)

I used to like reading on the beach. Though I no longer live by the ocean, I still like to read in nature.