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What time of day do you read.

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gmelon Tue 20-Feb-18 16:12:25

The traditional "couple of chapters in bed" or do you have a favourite , set aside time to read?
What do you eat while you are reading?

When do you read?
Is it something you just can't wait to get back to?

We all seem to have lots to do including the general housework and chores and of course there are those who have jobs.

A book sits there calling out to me waiting to reveal its next twist.

TwiceAsNice Wed 21-Feb-18 08:39:43

Bed not need don't know where that came from

Bathsheba Wed 21-Feb-18 09:15:48

Any time, any place, anywhere grin. I always read 2 or 3 chapters at night in bed, and during the day I read while eating lunch and dinner, or when I sit down for a cuppa. While waiting in the doctor's/dentist's, at the hairdresser. When I'm babysitting (after the children are in bed, of course). When I'm out and about if I pop in for a coffee somewhere out comes the Kindle. If it's a real page turner, I'll even read in the car (with DH driving of course), though I try to resist as it's rather unsociable of me!
In short, at any opportunity smile

Bridgeit Wed 21-Feb-18 09:57:52

When I was younger, I would read morning, noon & night,even with a torch under the covers,I was always impatient to get to the end. I’m not quite so bad now, but still always have a book or two on the go.
I have tried on line, kindle etc, but for me has to be a physical book . I just love them

mischief Wed 21-Feb-18 10:05:39

Like Bellanonna, I read anywhere I have to wait. Trains, busses, in bed at night, waiting for friends, appointments.

grandMattie Wed 21-Feb-18 10:14:12

You might have asked me when I breathe!
Any time, any place, any book [almost]!

Nanny41 Wed 21-Feb-18 10:16:33

I dont read a lot, but if I have a good bok I tend to read late at night before going to bed, I find it difficult to read in bed with my verifocals. I read magazines during the day at various times.

Urmstongran Wed 21-Feb-18 10:22:08

I read the Guardian, the Daily Mail & subscribe to the Telegraph (all on my wonderful iPad). Good to read the news with different viewpoints. And then I read books on my Kindle and paper books too as I like both. ???. We live in a small apartment (one here, one in Malaga) so not much housework to do. Yippee! I never feel guilty reading as a consequence.

AlieOxon Wed 21-Feb-18 10:28:23

Anytime. Most things except bus timetables....
Without glasses. And have never felt guilty!

henetha Wed 21-Feb-18 10:35:28

I read in bed, can't sleep otherwise. And yesterday afternoon because the book is due back at the library today.
I read books, and absolutely anything else. I love reading.

inishowen Wed 21-Feb-18 10:43:00

I go to bed at 10 pm because I want to read for at least an hour. I love reading so much. If I wake during the night I start reading again.

schnackie Wed 21-Feb-18 10:43:04

I always have my Kindle and read if I think I will be waiting, i.e. launderette, GP, train etc. But I must read every night as it puts me to sleep. I usually do manage one or two chapters before nodding off. Worst thing is falling asleep and Kindle falling onto my face! Don't want to have to explain a black eye!! wink

humptydumpty Wed 21-Feb-18 10:45:24

I read whenever I can, and I have to take issue with Mollie - that includes walking! Why is that daft? I do look up at regular intervals and when crossing the road!

harrigran Wed 21-Feb-18 10:50:32

I read at mealtimes, if it is just us in the kitchen, and at bedtime.

luzdoh Wed 21-Feb-18 10:51:19

Same as TwiceAsNice. I'd read all day if possible. I am a book-worm. I do prefer actual books to Kindle but still appreciate my Kindle for being able to hold so much when I travel.
I read in the loo so much it was renamed "the Library" when I was a child. As a child it was a standing joke that I would be somewhere reading something when they wanted me and that I couldn't polish the family's shoes without reading the newspaper I'd put down on the floor first.
I can't stand those messages on walls or on wallpaper because I have a compulsive need to read them and I'm fed up with being told to "Live Laugh Love" (Another thread?)

Kim19 Wed 21-Feb-18 10:53:50

Papers, morning and book either in bed or garden summer sunbathing (roll on!).

Silverlining47 Wed 21-Feb-18 11:10:10

I love reading in bed in the morning. At night time I can only read a few pages before nodding off.
I think my mother instilled in me (as was instilled in her!) that you should be 'doing'something during the day, not sit reading a book, so reading for hours on holiday
and on sunny days in the garden are a huge and delightful indulgence!
Back in the UK the weekend papers with my husband and a pot of coffee was a lovely ritual.
Most mornings I catch up with the news and GN mid- morning with a cup of coffee......like now!

Margs Wed 21-Feb-18 11:19:29

Usually after The Archers has finished at 7.15pm.

The programmes between 7.15pm and 8.00pm go a bit bland so it's a useful 45mins to get stuck into any reading.

tavimama Wed 21-Feb-18 11:21:51

I am on my own most days so have an audio book on as I bumble around doing my chores. I am reasonably antisocial, so have earbuds for outside of the house - shopping etc. I have a Kindle, and also have the app on my phone for appointments when I invariably have to wait. And, of course, ‘real’ books for bed time or when insomnia strikes. I don’t read as much as I used to due to the intrusions of real life - but I am never far from reading material of some description smile

Lupin Wed 21-Feb-18 11:26:13

Lots of things in common with others on this thread. My reading habit was looked on as laziness when I was young and it took me ages to get rid of that furtive feeling when I picked up a book. I used to hide somewhere.
I also have comfort reads- and if I love a book I have to buy my own copy and have it to delve back into at random parts.
Lately, I've got into listening to audio books and find that listening enhances insight into a story and characters. It also helps me fall asleep too!
Does anyone else keep more than one book on the go too?
Sometimes only non-fiction will do and at others I'm back into novels.

Kim19 Wed 21-Feb-18 11:44:55

I've often wondered about this keeping more than one book on the go. Have to assume on a mixture of fact and fiction. Maybe it's just me but I wonder if I could cope with retaining the plots of each separately. I've enough trouble working out what day it is when I wake up! Bravo to all of you who manage this interesting (but confusing) practice.

Bamm Wed 21-Feb-18 11:45:39

If I have a book that I am enjoying I read and read until it is finished, even late into the night.

W11girl Wed 21-Feb-18 11:45:52

Traditional bedtime, waiting rooms, trains, buses, queues... I've always got a book with me and a dreaded kindle which I rarely use.

gulligranny Wed 21-Feb-18 12:25:28

I have reading time factored in every day: my lovely DH brings me a cup of tea in bed and I then read for at least half an hour (longer if the cat has settled on top of me and therefore cannot be disturbed), and I usually go to bed at 10 pm which gives me an hour. If the book I'm reading is particularly rivetting I'll have an hour in the afternoons too, with absolutely no guilt feelings whatsoever. I can't survive without books, my husband says he would find it easier to imagine me not breathing than not reading!

Craftycat Wed 21-Feb-18 12:48:56

Whenever I can! Always on a sunbed in garden or on beach in summer- all day if I am on holiday- thank goodness for Kindles as I used to pack 12 books to take away for a fortnight.
In bed at night before I go to sleep & if I wake up in night a chapter or 2 will help me get back to sleep.
I am addicted to reading - always have been since a small child- so every opportunity I get I lose myself in a book.

grandMattie Wed 21-Feb-18 12:59:31

Kim, my brain can't take more than one book at a time - so I tend to read the whole book, be it fact , fiction or "faction"...