Finding your place

It would seem that you can read anyway and the truth is that you can, really, read anywhere. It is particularly wonderful to read when you are travelling by way of a mode that does not make you motion sick. And there is nothing better than reading when you are waiting, or forced to wait. For while doing either of these two activities to be engrossed in a good story makes the time resplendent and not tedious and boring.

However it is my experience that to do either of the above you really need to be attached to the text you are reading already. And sometimes when you enter into a new book while starting a trip or that grissly old doctor’s waiting room this is not the case; you simple do not have the capacity to do the work to get your hooks into the tale.

So this where your place comes into play. And this takes some time and some thought. It takes staging and set up. I have found that it is best to procure or find a good chair. A sofa maybe but I do prefer a chair. A comfortable chair. A footstool is good too. I have found that second hand shops and auction rooms are full of those old comfortable living room chairs that no one seems to want.

Find a small side table and a good lamp. Again second hand shops and recycling places seem afloat with them.

A hot water bottle and a snug blanket.

These make for the ideal place. Choose a corner in a sunny room in which to set up your reading place. And when your allotted time comes to read fill up your water bottle, make a cuppa and sit down to concentrate on your reading skills. This leads you to finding that gorgeous and dreamy sweet spot where all you want to do is get back to your story.