♥ Nothing Better Than Reading!! ♥ discussion

Are you a person that needs complete silence around you, while reading a book, or not?

Depends how good the book is. If I've reached the totally addicted stage there could be a riot going on around me and I wouldn't notice =)

I need peace and quiet for something that's a hard read or I'm struggling to get into

I PREFER it but I can still read on trains and planes most of the time unless someone is being particularly loud and obnoxious.

I have six kids still at home. MOST of the time I can read with them around, being kids. But if the book is particularly boring, or a hard classic, I have to wait until they are all doing something away from me.

I can read without silence. I usually am so engrossed in the book, I don't hear background noise.

Silence around me matters for me until I get into the rhythm of reading..
Once I get into it, Nothing comes to my attention.

Silence, I don't like any distractions. I find it hard to fully delve into my book if there's a racket going on around me, it ruins the mood

I need silence....and usually no one around me unless my boyfriend in sleeping next to me. If he's awake I can't read because I feel like he's just staring at me when he's not.

I prefer silence (a quiet library or reading room = heaven!) but I don't usually require it; unless the book is a Serious Book with lots of difficult vocabulary words, or a supremely-complicated story line. In that situation, silence can help, but I'm not one to demand that everyone around me shut up, just so I can read.*

*I did this once, when I was about seven...I was trying to read a Magic Treehouse book, or something...I had thought I was pretty nice about it at the time, but I was probably just being bratty and extra-precocious. Needless to say, my mom was NOT pleased. :)

I flip flop between silence and noise. If there is someone annoying talking I prefer silence or my music. Otherwise I don't really care too much.

Silence to me is peaceful white noise - I have to have a fan circulating the air and some kind of sound. Complete drop dead silence is unnerving and depressing. Almost creepy

I like rainymood.com on the computer when I read. Love the soft background of a storm.

Otherwise I prefer nothing on.

I prefer silence, but I can still read on public transport, which is... well, not silent at all!

Thank god I'm not. I live in a busy house that is never quite while people are awake!

Need silence when I read, but if I am sewing or drawing then I need music.

Only If the book is my favorite, or i'm at an exciting part of a book. That is when I want silence so that every word of the book sinks in without interruption. That also depends upon the type of noise. If it is a continuous sound of a machine, the brain gets used to it. If it is children shouting and messing up things, it becomes intolerable then.

No. I actually prefer to have music playing in the background when I read. I have read with just about anything going on around me.

If the book is good and I have gotten into it than I can read with noise around but if I have just started a book I need silence.

It definitely helps and I usually have the fan on or something for white noise.