Where Do You Read?

A Solitary Pursuit in Isolation or in Public

© Melissa Howard

May 12, 2008

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." Harold Bloom


Some people reserve reading for a special time or place. Some like to read on a bench at the park, others like to read with a cup of coffee at a table at their favorite bookstore, some snuggle up with a book on the couch, and still others like to read themselves to sleep. No matter where you read, it is an act of solitude. What location changes is whether the solitude is only mental or if it is physical as well.

Do you read in a busy location, knowing that someone could break into the solitude and destroy the moment or do you read in physical isolation so that your experience in a book is complete?

Leave a comment or take the poll. Share with others what your ideal reading experience looks like.


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