This library encourages you to lie down and sleep

[Ohiogal]

Book lovers, we all know the feeling: our eyelids are growing heavy, our mind is getting fuzzy, we can feel the sleep coming. But we can’t go to sleep — not only because we need to keep reading, but also because we’re in the library! We can’t help but wish the library had a bed. Well, this one does!

https://www.bookbub.com/blog/2019/01/28/sleep-behind-the-shelves-of-book-and-bed-tokyo?email_link_source=article_secondary&source=blogdigest

[TEB]

1. A great idea

[trixie2]

2. If you get tired and sleepy while reading then you are doing it wrong

My parents would real all day to us but not at bedtime. Otherwise we would be up all night talking about the book they were reading and drawing pictures to go with the story.

I need to Google stuff and look at atlases and maps when I read. I am a huge reader, but never before bed.

[Phentex]

5. Some of us having been reading since before the internet came along...

Reading can be very relaxing which is why I think many people read at night. My kids loved to read to all the time. In the tent while camping. In a hammock outside on a nice afternoon. Inside on a rainy day. But most of all at bedtime. They looked forward to it all day. Even when we, the parents, were exhausted, reading to the boys at bedtime was simply something we didn't skip.

[csziggy]

6. I had a medical professional recommend that I read at bedtime

Usually I fall asleep with the TV on and she thought it contributed to my insomnia. OK, I tried reading at night - and got much less sleep because I got so engrossed with my books I didn't put them down until I was finished with them. Now I remember why I gave up reading in bed!

I tried listening to music or those ten hour tracks of "soothing rhythms" - that just gives my brain a nice background to grind away at the day's problems. TV with a fairly soothing soundtrack and a plot keeps my mind engaged and lulls me to sleep. The narrator on Forensic Files is good for that but more recently I've been falling asleep to Misnomer Murders. Both series have nearly twenty years of episodes so I can't remember the ins and outs of most of the plots.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. Trixie,

I, too, read all the time. I read lots of different stuff. Am re-reading Beowulf. I’m not sure why. Maybe, I am going back to high school and college and reading all the books that were required. I am also reading, The Marriage Lie, by Kimberly Belle. One of those psych-mystery books. This one is not bad. Now, to reading before bed: I always do. It is one of my great comforts. It is the safest sleeping pill, ever. What do I read while snug in bed with a warm blanket and a beautiful little Scout (my dog)? Confession: I read comforting and cozy mysteries. I love them. Clever, cute, cuddly mysteries. Always solved by women. What’s not to like? 🤗.

[OxQQme]

4. Polly, check out Laurie R. King.

Start with 'The Beekeeper's Apprentice'.
Mary Russell meets Sherlock Holmes.

[trixie2]

7. I do that too

I think you get a different view of the same book as you experience life more.

My favorite book to hate is A Room of One's Own by Woolf. I had recently read an in-depth biography of her and I was shaking my head. What a fraud! Still remains my favorite book to hate.