I can't seem to find a cosy spot in my house....

Mostly in the bath tbh but also on a floor cushion under the front bay window, or in bed.

bed and bath

bed isn't comfy for long.

I need more pillows I think.

in bed, on th esofa, in th ecar, anywhere really.

bed,bath,sofa,bus

bed, sofa, at the table when we are eating, on the toilet, brushing my teeth, cooking (if it's just stirring stuff).

i have romantic visions of cuddling up in a big plush chair....

Bed every night and bath on Sundays for an hour if at all possible, until DH brings DS in and they sit on the loo with DH saying 'What is mummy doing, what is she reading, oooh splash mummy', until I go mental and get out.

bed

Bed or on the sofa.

Bed. Get yourself some big fat pillows KerryMum!

On the train, that's it, an hour a day. I have to stop myself killing the arses with their Ipods ting-ting-ting-ing away but I try to zone out!!

Bed, bus, restaurant at work

you need a pillow - a triangular one so you can prop yourself up in bed and read

Bed. Big square pillows behind my normal sleeping ones. I love lounging in bed reading. Not that I get much opportunity

but what about during the day?

Bath or bed are the comfy places. Bath is my fave. But heck I'll read anywhere!

Curled up n the cotner of the sofa, lots of cushions and a cup of tea! When I get the chance

Bed

On my break at work

Only on the loo these days

bed, sofa, wherever I can usually!

Bed

Bed, while bfeeding ds. Was fine when he was smaller, but now he is 4 months he tends to crane up to see the pages

littlelamb. Just wait till he is older and asking you 'what does that word say?' 'And that one?' 'where are the pictures?' 'have you finished reading yet?'

bed mainly.

occasionally I bring a book downstairs and read in the living room, but:

a) I can't concentrate on the book
b) I can't concentrate on the kids
c) absolutely NO housework gets done
d) some days I don't even switch the computer on.

so mostly bed?

anywhere I can I read.

but if I cannot get comfy, then I go and read on my bed with a huge pile of cushions to sink into. even during the day!

bed, bath and (new one this, as have given up newspapers) public transport

Bed, bath, toilet, lunch time at work! I can't sleep if I don't read in bed.

Bed (much to DH's disgust)

whats his beef about you reading in bed

in bed, every night no matter how tired I am, for at least 20 mins, but sometimes much much longer (to DH displeasure)...

Bed - any time of day or evening. Sofa if no dcs at home. Otherwise no chance.

Books, on the tube to work and during my lunchbreak, mostly. Newspaper in the bath sometimes, or at breakfast, on the way home from work.

bed,sitting at the table, sofa, bath, car

SM - erm, maybe that he doesn't like the light being on?!

book = not tonight thanks. - not in our house though

Bed mostly or sometimes I keep a book next to me on the pc if the internet is slow . I'm not very good at lolling in the bath. I started taking a book into the spa at the gym but I got odd looks so I stopped doing it.

lol onepiece! You are right, of course! So much eaiser to set the stall out from the beginning.....

lol we do a lot of frenetic page turning and humphing if i am at crucial point and wont put it down

I had to hide the last Harry Potter book then read the last couple of chapters under duress as ex bf threatened to tell me the ending unless I hurried up and finished it.

Not because he wanted to read it - he can't stand Harry Potter or people reading in bed. I wasn't very happy and let him know .

I read in bed, in the bath, while waiting for pasta / rice / whatever to cook, on the loo, while pushing the pushchair, on the way to the Spa shop, in the queue at the post office, on trains, on buses, in cars (not whilst driving), and errr when I get the chance in a nice cosy corner on the sofa.

Everywhere. Except while walking as I had one accident too many.

Lo at not when walking. As a child, I was walking home with some friends from primary school but as usual I had my head stuck in a book. A man pulled over and asked where the nearest public toilets were. Apparently he had no trousers or pants on. When the policeman came to question us, I think he thought I was barmy because I hadn't even noticed the half naked man, as I was too busy reading!

I read when walking and you get such funny looks and comments from strangers such as 'it must be a good book' and 'I wish I could do that!'. I'm scared to do it now in case I get accosted by semi-naked men in the street!

everywhere, including whilst brushing my teeth

Anywhere!

Car, bed, sofa, bath, loo...

I have 10,000 pillows for bed reading

I've been known to read in the pub. I can read anywhere.

A friend of mine got really ratty with me once because I went to stay with her for the weekend and after I'd been there a while we were watching TV and having a cuppa I got my book out. She was most offended. My argument was: we weren't chatting or anything we were just watching TV and anyway I can talk and read at the same time! But to her I was implying she was boring company.

@harpomarx (from the weekend): narrow escape this morning when 6YO wanted to take the lovely A3 proofs from my revered employers' mag to school with him ("But Mummy - I need something really BIG to write my stories on!").

I don't think Year 2 was necessarily ready for Howard Jacobson's views on sex.

I have seen a few people who walk and read and I must say well done! I read sometimes when waiting for a bus and often miss the bugger because I forget to look up, can't imagine the calamities which would befall me if I tried to walk and read.

I usually read on the sofa or bed, not even very good at reading on trains etc, for some reason I find it hard to concentrate.

um, but on topic - nothing new:

Mostly when I really ought to be doing something else like cleaning, paying bills, doing the laundry, not being CRUCIAL MINUTES LATE for school pickup (you know the ones I mean, that Mark You Out in a bad way - either you are that mum, or you have tsked over that mum - not the sort where you are clearly neglectful, but enough to give the distinct impression that either you are totally disorganised or you really Don't Care And Must Be Shunned In The Playground not that I am bitter or anything ahem)

OK, seriously:

Train to work if I don't have too much extra to do
Bed on the rare occasions I get there at a reasonable time and don't need to turn the light out straight away
Dining room table if DH is watching TV because I find it hard to concentrate when someone else is talking
otherwise sofa if I am lucky
Bath once in a blue moon

and various other locations much more infrequent than I would like them to be.

I have a not-yet-exterminated fantasy of spending a whole afternoon in the Orchard tearooms in Grantchester with an enormous scone and a pot of tea, reading a nice fat novel. So far I've managed a 45-minute toe-dip in the water of that idea.

As to advice for optimum reading spot, KerryMum, bath is definitely the best, as long as you have a decent hot water tank and can keep topping it up as it cools.

I bought a lovely Victorian chaise lounge as my very special me only reading spot. I had it recovered from original vile green velour to foxy hot pink - placed it in optimum position for reading, in a big picture window overlooking the garden. And must have sat and read for a grand total of about 30 mins in the last two years. Blardy kids keep coming up and jumping on me every time I try and sit down. I am hoping that by the time they have left home it will still be intact enough for me to have a nice lie down and read then - about 16 years time.

A nice comfy rocking chair in the corner of the bedroom,(when i still had it)

Anywhere. In bed, on the couch, in the bath, on the toilet (). Anywhere you can sit down I've always got a book.

I generally read in bed before I go asleep and first thing in the morning.

CCBG - me too!

In bed with the duvet all scrunched behind me, in an armchair in the kitchen (my favourite), on grass in the park just after the nursery drop, on the train/bus/ tube

I can't read books in the bath they seem to get 'soggy' with the steam.

But I do read in the bath, it's always trash like take a break or pick me up, seems much more suitable.

Have you ever dropped a treasured book in the bath? I dropped 'I Am A Cat' by Soseki and I cried because it had taken me ages to find a copy! I also once dropped a brand new hardback of Zadie Smith's Autograph man but that wasn't so bad. Oh and I dropped a book by Tim Pears and it came out so badly I had to get another copy so I could finish the book.

I did once drop my history notes in the bath when revising for an exam. That really WAS disastrous as they were written in soluble blue fountain-pen ink (showing my age here).

I can't remember ever dropping a book in the bath. Dripping on it so the pages went crinkly when putting it down to top up the hot water, yes. I did once have to wash a book that was spoiled by a nasty bout of travel sickness (sorry if TMI), but that came out surprisingly readable, if rather bendy. Bet you couldn't do that with the paperbacks of today <<rant on declining standards of book production suppressed for reasons of extreme tedium for everyone else>>

definitely bed dont get chance any other time

Toilet
bath

I read laying on & in bed. Read on buses, trains and coaches or in a car. Sitting on the sofa.

But I need 100% peace & quiet when I am in a good book.