Ok, best/fav time for reading?

[Saolta Oiche]

So here be my inquisitive question....

What, for you the reader, is the best time for reading? Do you have one? Do you have a preferance as to the atmosphere you have to have areound you?

Please send in a self addresed....

hold up, no, that isn't right... hmmm




I personally find evening before I got to bed the best. No one is about coz they are usually sleeping, it is peaceful, quiet and comfotable!

I usually have some sort of classical music on, Pirates OTC Soundtrack at the mo, usually a soundtrack album and away I go with my reading!

I try reading in the van at work but the others yap away and have the radio on so it is not ideal for my concerntration.



Anyone else?

 

[Alurny]

I keep cramming "a few chapters" (read half a book) in the early hours of the morning. Especially annoying when I got to be up at 6 for the early shift at work

 

[chrispenycate]

Whenever I'm not doing anything else, particularly while travelling. I can blot out the world entirely, and concentrate to the entire exclusion of where the train's got to, or all those people around me screaming because we're going through turbulence. There are several restaurants that know they don't have to serve me fast, but do have to make certain I've noticed the food's arrived.

 

[Joel007]

I do my most immersive reading in bed during the evenings. I can drift away into a magical fantasy world at work, but i have to keep one eye on the time, or in a car, I have to keep one eye on the road

 

[steve12553]

Before bed, appropriate music (Classical or classic rock, anything you can tune into the background but loud enough to eliminate backgraound noise..) Light concentrated toward the page, room lights down. An hour and a half or two hours before I start nodding.

 

[Pyan]

When I'm actually awake.
Not a joke: the only times I don't actually read are when I'm asleep, or driving (and then I usually have an audio-book on the car player).
I also don't need to have any kind of receptive atmosphere, being perfectly able to become totally immersed in a book to the exclusion of all noise, etc, incuding one memorable instance when I apparently only looked up and grunted when some idiot drove into a parked car 20 feet from the park bench I was sitting on at the time. (The book was Interesting Times by PTerry, by the way- a good choice in the circumstances!)

 

[aarti]

I like reading after work, until dinner. And then usually, if it's a good work, from dinner to bedtime ;-) But if it's a weekend, I can read all day long!

 

[Rosemary]

Any time I find the chance

 

[fanatsynewbie]

Right now I work in a furniture store, every morning I go to work about 1, 1 and a half hours early, relax in the most comfortable chair and read until it's time to open.....only bad thing about this is when I really get into the book, I get a little irritable with my employees when they come in

 

[littlemissattitude]

Almost anytime, almost anywhere.

Like Chris, I read in restaurants all the time and actually a nice quite restaurant is one of my favorite places to read. I also studied a lot in restaurants when I was in school. What better place, when as long as they don't need the table space for someone else there are people who will bring you things to eat and drink if you want them so that you don't have to get up and get them yourself?

In bed, early in the morning if I happen to wake up early or at night after I've gone to bed is another good time/place for me. The only problem with night reading is that I often fall asleep on my book, with the light on. I don't know how many paperbacks I've bent that way.

But, like I said, I'll read just about any time and just about anywhere, although I draw the line at reading while walking or driving. Some people seem to manage those, but I'm just not coordinated enough. Although I will admit to having read at stoplights a couple of times when I was just finishing up really good books.

I will also admit to having taken a book along to Disneyland and read while standing in line waiting to go on rides most of the times I've been there. When I'm at Disneyland I'll also find a nice shady place to sit and read for an hour or so when I get tired of walking around. I've always said that if I lived back in SoCal, I would get an annual pass to Disneyland just so I'd have an interesting place to go sit and read or write for a few hours ever once in awhile.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

Lol, you lucky folk who can read when things are going on around ya. I can but the book must be very very good. I can't really read The Gormenghast Trilogy without silence, it is written in such a fantastical way that my mind needs to silence to focus so I can absorb the text.

My sister used to read while we used to walk to school, I always used to wait for the comic scetch where she'd walk into a lampost but it never happened, doh!



Here is another question rather than making another thread.....

Do you find yourself feeling guilty when you get your head out of your book and find the world has passed by unknown to you? Do we sometimes read TOO much? If such exists.

What do you reckon?

Sometimes I do feel guilty or out of sorts if I've had my head in a book for ages, so much else could have been done. The feeling doesn't last long coz I've enjoyed the book so much I simply think 'Sod it!'

Anyone else?

 

[j d worthington]

Coming in late on this... First question: whenever I have nothing else that demands my attention, I'm reading. And I mean demands my attention!

Second question: No, I don't feel guilty. I've learned far too much, and tend to get so much more out of life when I am involved, because of the layers of appreciation I've picked up by reading. Reading (especially a variety of philosophical viewpoints behind different writers' works) allows me to see so much else that is often overlooked, and find joy in so many small things that most don't even notice; it also allows me to see how paltry and fleeting are so many of the things that most people consider "important" ... things that no one will give a damn about within a very few years' time, whereas a lot of the things that are seen as "unimportant" are actually the things that are remembered, sometimes for centuries.... And my reading has also helped me to make it through times that, without such aid, I doubt I'd have survived (and this is not hyperbole).

Anything that can do these things ... why should I feel guilty, however much time I spend with it?

 

[HoopyFrood]

Ah, how I love to read. And like a few here, I too read whenever I can...While eating (I know, the amount of times I've been scolded for having a book at the dinner table), while in the bath, I carry a book in my pocket so that I can read when I'm out...Whenever I have a spare moment, I'll whip out my book and read!

And no, I don't feel guilty for reading, no matter how much my family may mock me for doing such! (but they're used to it now: "Always got her head in a book, you can't tear her away from them...don't know where she gets it from!") I love to read, just for the pure pleasure of it. No one can take that away from me! (just try to!!)

 

[nixie]

Best time to read? anytime any place.I always have a book with me, buses, trains, resturants, stood in queues, in the bath can't sleep on a night if I haven't read.I can switch everyone off when reading, including the fire alarm at work

 

[Alurny]

With regasds to question 2:

A little. I always worry I am missing out on something. I really enjoy reading don't get me wrong there is just a tiny niggle at the back of my head. No one in hy house reads so it makes it harder for me to find the time. I often leave my housemates (infront of a film or the TV) in favour of reading a book.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

Ah see I knew you'd know what I was on about Alurny. ;-D lol

 

[Stenevor]

Best/Favourite time would be a sunny summer afternoon lazing in the garden otherwise when Im at home and work is done for the day and I can totally switch everything else off and concentrate.

 

[Alurny]

Ah see I knew you'd know what I was on about Alurny. ;-D lol

Haha.

I been thinking about it more and I think it's just down to similar feelings with any hobby.

Example:

I have a 2500 word essay in on Monday 8th Jan. I really need to read up on topic X. However I totally ignore this and go on to read a Fantasy novel leading to my work being a last minute job. I know I should have spent more time doing my essay so in that case I missed out. However the fantasy book raised my morale and so I feel better for it.

Ok bad example but hopefully you get my point. lol.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Ah, I know exactly what you mean...I really should do an essay in the next week, but I know instead I'll read (and come on the Chron!) and I won't get it done...instead I'll leave it until I return to university and then I'll have to do it at the last moment like I always do!

 

[Alurny]

Ah, I know exactly what you mean...I really should do an essay in the next week, but I know instead I'll read (and come on the Chron!) and I won't get it done...instead I'll leave it until I return to university and then I'll have to do it at the last moment like I always do!

Doing the very same right now

-Although I just put a couple of books on hold at the Library

If only books on Policy and Teamwork etc were exciting At least the physiology aspect is interesting