Which brings to mind a question: who else keeps a basket or other container of reading material in their bathrooms?
well, yeah. Also, my friends at work still call the bathroom (at work) the reading room.
I get weird black spots in my vision whenever I read in the car, particularly in the bright NM sun. Didn't stop me. I was frequently told to stop reading, either because I'd ruin my eyes and have to wear glasses or because I was supposed to be doing something else. This all from the maternal Quaker side; once my mother was out of the picture I could read all I wanted. Thankfully.
I can't read in a moving vehicle because of motion sickness.
The only childhood reading restrictions I can remember are 1)Being told not to read by lamplight only because it would ruin my eyes(It didn't, I'm nearly 40 and still don't need glasses) and 2)Being prohibited from taking out library books that weren't for schoolwork.(guess they thought I'd neglect my work and just read fiction all the time)
I remember getting a special dispensation from the 3-book rule in the children's library.
I read in the bathroom. I have magazines in there, and sometimes a book.
I can't read in a moving car -- not even look at a magazine -- and it pisses me off INCREDIBLY. What a waste of good reading and sitting time. And I hate audiobooks -- they're so damned slow.
The thing that keeps from reading in the tub is that my glasses steam up. (Reading without glasses is not an option. Contacts are also not an option for various reasons.)
I can't figure out how to arrange my arms so that I'm comfortable reading in the tub. My current tub is uncomfortable to just soak in, anyway, so with the right tub I suppose that might change. A stack of magazines lives on the bathroom counter. Driving (or riding while someone else drives) is really the only time I can stand to listen to audiobooks. If I try to just sit and listen to one I either get all fidgety or I fall asleep, and if I try to multitask whilst listening I completely miss large swaths of text. But driving apparently takes exactly the right amount of attention to allow me to follow the audiobook.
Exercising is good audio book time for me. I have even mamaged to work the heavy bag while listening to a CD of instructions and a book on top of each other. But normally it's treadmill/reclining bike.
Dude. I just fell asleep watching the season premiere of Heroes. I must be seriously tired. I think I'm going to go take a bath and read a book right now. It'll be fucking great.
Depth of current tub is shallow enough that I can prop my elbow on the bottom with book in hand and not get it wet. I have also perfected a one-handed book-hold-and-page-turn methodology that works for all but the heaviest hardbacks. Which, okay, I probably shouldn't have in the tub with me anyway. Not that that stops me.
My glasses fog up, but then they get over it. And the current glasses are made of an evidently supernaturally durable material (I keep waiting for them to wear out so I can get a different style, but they never do. This is the same pair I had in my mid twenties when my eyes stopped getting worse. I'm used to my vision getting significantly worse every year and thereby being able to update my style annually. Good thing this was a moderate black wire-frame instead of one the more extreme versions when my vision stabilized.) so they're fine. I had a previous pair where the earpieces rusted out because I kept getting water in the little plastic bits against the metal from reading in the bath so much. Whups.
I can't even hold a conversation when I drive, the verbal section of my brain is not online when I'm driving. The pattern recognition/geometry section is in control, and if I try to swap bad things happen.
I get all lost in thinking about my breathing and technique (and this is is usually just walking) and keep having to rewind. It's a bummer, because it seems like the perfect opportunity to consume more books. I'm hopeful that I will not have to think quite so much at some point and audiobooks will be accessible to me.
