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What is your favorite weather - location reading combination.

Snowy or rainy days indoors in my blanket fort.

I read daily throughout the year - primarily at home. I have a favorite spot there with a bright reading lamp. Weather doesn't factor into this. Recently, my husband has taken to sitting in the same spot with a book and I don't like it! (Have to laugh at myself for this.) I then go to our den to read. (See, I can be flexible.)

Yesterday, the weather was glorious here. I often take the book that I'm reading to a park. After hiking, I sit on a park bench and read.

Today it’s gorgeous so I was just reading outside on the deck. The couch on my back porch is very comfy about half the year. In the winter I sometimes sit by the fire place, but that couch is too soft to stay there very long. When I get migraines I go to my bedroom and listen to a book in the dark. And I listen at bedtime with a timer.

Indian Summer, after a good rain and with my camera handy

I love the idea of reading indoors with tea and a blanket and a burning candle when it's pouring outside...or inside a really nice library with a fireplace.

I do have a little reading nook with an armchair right next to the window, and sometimes I do make tea or put a candle on to go with my reading, but most of the time, I just read on the couch next to my dog. Sometimes in the summer/when it's warm, I think about going outside to read in the park, but I actually rarely end up doing that because I like to bring my dog with me and he does not love warm weather lol.

Indoors - outdoors is always too hot, too cold, too windy or too buggy. - usually on the couch or bed

On the other hand, I can walk outside and listen to an audiobook, mostly spring and fall.

So many good places/reasons to read.....

Summer - by the pool or at the beach or better yet IN the pool. I have 2 different floaties bought specifically for their comfortableness while reading books - one more horizontal and one more chair-like sitting

Spring - on my deck - enjoying the weather and waiting for the pool to be warm enough to read while floating IN the pool.

Fall - on my deck - enjoying the cooler weather and less humidity

Rain - in my sunroom looking out the windows to see/hear the rain in the pool/backyard

Hiking/walking - audiobooks with my Shokz headphones so I can still hear nature/safety but also hear the books

Couch for reading in the evening.

Blankets/jammies if cold outside

I don't read with any food or drinks (not a coffee/tea drinker)

Oh - just also remembered I have a hammock outside too - love to read while in the hammock watching/listening to the backyard birds - and snuggle in with blankets when it is chilly out. Usually too hot to hammock read in the summer -but I this reminded me it time to start heading to the hammock with a book now the weather has changed enough to enjoy. And decide - read on the deck or in the hammock??

Theresa wrote: "Snowy or rainy days indoors in my blanket fort."

I was going to say snowy, but pretty much this! Maybe with a cup of hot chocolate beside me.

I recently had to put my comfy chair into storage, my boyfriend moved in and we needed the space. I thought snuggling on the couch would be good enough, but I miss my chair :-(.

Indoors, always, for the same reasons as Robin. Plus now that I need reading glasses but use Maui Jims I don't want to pay to get an Rx pair of those.

I have a double comfy chair in my living room that looks out the picture window to the front yard. I have not sat there and read all summer! Time to rectify that as the cooler weather moves in, with winter not far behind.

I follow the sun around the house, so I am in a warm patch, preferably with a purring ginger snuggle rug beside or on me.

I have plans though. We have a funny thin ‘study’ area, which we don’t actually use as a study. It’s mostly optimistically occupied by a large desk which is not the workstation it was intended to be but instead a dumping ground for anything without an immediate home. But it would be a perfect room for a proper reading nook once I get rid of the desk. I am happily re-imagining the space …

I mostly recline to read - coach or bed - mostly because I sit at a desk for long hours. Since pandemic and moving my office home during lock in then permanently, my downtime and relaxation reading ismostly in the bedroom. It happened gradually,mbut since I have a one bedroom NY apartment, halfmy living room is my office, not some area I can cloe the door and ignore. My bedroom is thus the retreat from all things work!

KateNZ wrote: "I follow the sun around the house, so I am in a warm patch, preferably with a purring ginger snuggle rug beside or on me. .."

LOL! Like a cat!

Indeed! - specifically my Wilbur (big floof that he is) … never happier than when keeping me company with a book after a good dinner. And covering me with fur at the same time. I swear I could knit a new cat from what he’s shed in the last week …

My favorite place to read ever was in a forest by a river while I was camping. For long weekends I would take a pile of books and read them while hubby went fishing. That was a long time ago.

Now I read on the couch with the sacred blanket and my cats like to lay on me. Rosie most of all, she is the long hair tiger and Roxie is a calico.
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These days my reading is done mostly at the kitchen table, so I don't have to hold the book ... especially if it's a hardcover. I use my smart phone as a page holder. And can have my snack(s) and beverage easily to hand as well.

One week to go with the monster sling! But I think it will be a couple more weeks before I can comfortably hold a hardcover book in two hands.

Booknblues wrote: "Now I read on the couch with the sacred blanket and my cats like to lay on me...."

Ah yes, the Sacred Blanket! We know who rules your house!

Theresa wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Now I read on the couch with the sacred blanket and my cats like to lay on me...."

Ah yes, the Sacred Blanket! We know who rules your house!"

There is no doubt who rules in our house. In the heat of the summer, I do put my foot down.

Book Concierge wrote: "These days my reading is done mostly at the kitchen table, so I don't have to hold the book ... especially if it's a hardcover. I use my smart phone as a page holder. And can have my snack(s) and b..."

Heh! I have great sympathy for you as I experienced one of those slings when I had rotator cuff surgery.

I hope you heal quickly.