Life With Lisa: My Perfect Reading Place

Published July 15, 2012
Category: Columns, Life with Lisa

Welcome to Life with Lisa!

There’s in nothing better than sitting down, in the perfect place, cracking open a good book, and reading for a few hours. It’s relaxing, it gets your mind off of real life, and it takes you on a journey you would otherwise never be able to go on.

But for me, I can’t jump back into the book until I find that perfect place to read! It can’t be too loud or noisy, or else I won’t be able to concentrate on the story, but it also can’t be too quiet or else my thoughts will just wander, and I’ll start thinking about other things, such as stresses in life, chores, jobs, parents, and friends (don’t get me wrong, I love my family and friends, sometimes they can be a handful though!).

In the winter, I can’t be too cold, and in the summer I can’t be too hot! My reading locations change due to seasonal changes.

Throughout the winter, I like reading at night, when everything is dark and cozy. I’ll turn on my bedside lamp, light a candle, make myself a nice andwarm coffee, and cuddled up in my bed. I could lay there for hours reading, before I know it, it’s already past midnight, and I know waking up the next morning for school will be a struggle.

During the summer, I enjoy reading throughout the day, never really the night, but especially the morning. I’ll grab a lawn chair, my two evil doggies, and go out to the back yard, and just read until lunch time. If I’m out on vacation (which we don’t go very far, maybe a few nights at the beach, everydaywaking up and going to a different little town at the

shore!), I’ll usually go to the beach in the morning before anyone wakes up, and read for a while, just listening to the seagulls, the water rushing up on shore, and watching out for crabs or the occasional starfish.