Does anyone ACTUALLY ever "curl up" with a book?

[Fwendi]

I've sat down with a book. I've lain (is that the right word?!) down with a book. I've even stood up with a book.

What I've never done is curled up with one. This seems like a complicated, uncomfortable and counter-productive manoeuvre to me.

Where are all the curler-uppers?

I’m one.

I’m a curler-upper

i sit on the sofa with my legs sort of to one side and the book in my lap

Lying down in a croissant shape? No. Unless I’m the park, maybe. Can’t hold that position for long. But I do have my knees up if I’m reading in a chair, turned sideways on. Sometimes enjoy my legs up and draped over the back of the bed or sofa and book balanced on my boobs.

In the winter I curl up with a cuppa a heated blanket and my phone or the tv remote. Rarely a book these days. Tik Tok has ruined my attention span.

Erm, me!! I am always curled when I'm sitting or in bed, both excellent places to read books.

I would in a nice big armchair.

I’m currently curled up with my computer (WFH). I’m always curled up when sitting on the sofa 😂.

I do, in an armchair, with legs over the side.
I sit up in bed, with pillows

Only if they are also snuggled under a blankie of smugness with a hot choc.

Does it not mean just tucking your legs up? Or going under a blanket or duvet? In which case, yes I curl up with a book regularly!

But what does curled up look like to people? I see it as kind of a foetal position and I can't imagine where I'd put my book so that I could actually read it!

I stretch out with a book

I think you need a deep chair/sofa. I wouldn’t have done it with our last ones but we specifically looked for something with depth when we bought our current sofa and I can easily curl up in the corner of it with feet up in a sort of Z shape 😁

Yes I am curled up now, on the sofa electric blanket on feet under my bum

Ugh, simply curling up with a book is so passé.
True relaxation can only happen if you are in your pj’s with a mug of hot chocolate, snuggled up by the fire under a snuggly blanket, after having been crunching through the leaves/snow on a crisp autumn/winter day followed by hot bath with bubbles and candles.
🙄

No it doesn't mean curled up like that.

It means some variation of sitting/lying, often with your legs tucked under you.

One could also say 'fold myself up with a book' but it doesn't roll off the tongue as well.

Idioms aren't always literal.

Surely curled up is just sitting with your legs tucked up next to your side. They're curled up in that position.

I sit like that with a book, and then often end up also leaning over a bit as i get absorbed.

Like this?

Sorry not under you. But legs tucked up.

You need a sofa with a nice comfy arm to lean on. Sitting up with legs tucked under/next to you.

Definitely not foetal position 😂

I suppose I do. I'm curled up right now but I'm not reading (unless MN counts), I'm watching TV.

I'm on the sofa, my upper half leaning against the arm and my legs are bent to the side of me. That's curled up isn't it?

like this

Like the picture that has just been posted.

My hips won’t allow that these days 😂

I'm a curler-upper. When we were buying a new sofa I did extensive testing for curling up suitability.

As @Baneofmyexistence's picture! You need a nice Chesterfield club chair, an open fire or log burner warming a glass of red wine to do it properly! In autumn, curling legs onto sofa is essential if you want to concentrate because it's house spider season. 😱