Where is the Strangest place you have read?

[BookJumper]

i've read in a closet.

This just triggered the memory of my strangest place - I knew there was one!

 

I was interrailing (interrail: special train ticket giving the young traveller access to all trains within a certain country or countries) across Spain with two mates and, a couple of days in, I found myself at Madrid train station minus my ticket. Though the ticket is registered on a database with your name on it, it is non-replaceable in case of loss, as I discovered dispite many tears and prayers. Replacing it was unthinkable (300 euros, as I recall, aka all my food money), so I pretty much spent the next two weeks as a stowaway in train toilets in various states of disrepair, all of which air-conditioned me within an inch of my life.

 

On the longest of those journeys (8 hours, count them, 8), I sat in the locked, rattling toilet of the day and nursed my nerves with Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"* (which, incidentally, I adored).

 

*Needless to say, it took me a few years to find that image even remotely amusing.

[fayezie]

I don't think I've read anywhere strange yet! Will have to have a proper think!!

 

But I also carry my book with me everywhere I go!

[Guest ii]

Just the usual, I'm afraid. Let's see... well, a helicopter would be unusual, but not strange. I once sat cross-legged on top of a hockey goal (it was off the ice) and read Coelho while waiting for BF. Is that strange?

[BookBee8]

I once sat cross-legged on top of a hockey goal (it was off the ice) and read Coelho while waiting for BF. Is that strange?

 

Yes.

 

I don't think I've read anywhere strange, not that I can remember anyway. How boring!

[Guest ii]

Yes.

 

*laughs* Okay. I didn't find that strange, as I'm used to hanging out around the rink. And as BF plays hockey, that was a very natural place to be, and to wait for him. On top of it all, there weren't that many places to sit in, so I hopped on the goal. Perfectly logical, no? *laughs*

[Kreader]

At my younger sis's graduation ceremony. As soon as she had passed by on the stage my nephew and I simultaneously took out books and began to read much to the amusement of the rest of the audience:readingtwo: Well we found the speeches boring and I had to read a book for an essay assignment for my uni course which was due the next day.

[Adam]

I once sat cross-legged on top of a hockey goal (it was off the ice) and read Coelho while waiting for BF. Is that strange?

 

Thats awesome!

[Green_Shoe]

Oh no I hope it was not a major accident . You read on the roof??? Wow!!!!

 

Oh, don't worry, it wasn't serious. At least for me, my car and my book.

Wow, people are really creative choosing strange places to read.

[Guest ii]

Thats awesome!

 

*laughs* Okay. That was actually in Boston, should the location matter.

[Katrina1968]

What happened to my response??

[Weave]

At a party, well a christening in fact, it was very boring, I had a book in my bag, so I went with it, I think I finished the book.

[msleigh813]

I like to read just about anywhere really

but the strangest place would be when

I am fishing

[Anika]

I was in a math class, and was so wrapped up in my book (sitting in the back of the room with my math book in front of it) and the teacher picked the book up out of my hands. He was laughing really hard--then I noticed the bell had rang and everyone else had left, but I never noticed!

[Eryk]

I was reading my Kindle while laying in the emergency room (thank God for pain meds) and the nurse was like, "Hey, a Kindle", and asked me all about it.