Reading Room #5: Angels and Insect's

An A.S. Byatt novel came to mind as the perfect reading material to pair with this Victorian inspired greenhouse. I think I would read few chapters of the novella "Morpho Eugenia" from Byatt's "Angels and Insects". It would be easy to imagine one had slipped into the conservatory described in the novella to spy on a the building and unraveling of a marriage within the Alabaster house hold.

Photo via Deb's Dust Bunny blog.

Reading Room # 4: Sense and Sensibility

This room with it's quiet elegance, simple hearth and watchful Sybilla Persica would make a perfect back drop for taking on the love trials of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The room looks like it could be a bedroom in Barton Cottage. Modest with a few belongings from a grander past. Where's my copy of Sense and Sensibility?

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Reading Room # 3: Reading in Bed

Is there any better place to read? Not for me. I'm happiest when I'm reading in a nice bed. I've probably done most of my reading lying down with the book too close to my face. I think it's the best way to start drifting off to sleep. A story you like in your head, going as far as you can, till the book starts falling from your hand.

This bed tucked in under an archway with its cheery pillows and covers would make a perfect backdrop for one of Murakami's shorter works like "Sputnik Sweetheart" or maybe something by Jonathan Lethem. "Motherless Brooklyn" anyone? What book would you lie down and read in this room?

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