Blogocentric Formulations

Day 28: "I don't wanna talk about genies in bottles anymore"

*Written as part of the "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 

Day 28 Prompt: A genie has granted your wish to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What's it like?

Honestly, my response for the dream house prompt ("Day 25: "If you build it, they will come"" ) a couple days ago probably covers this topic too, or at least the parts about having a home office and a space with a view. I need to be comfortable when I read, but I also like to change things up, so a variety of comfortable chairs would probably be ideal. And I need quiet when I work, so some kind of a home office with a door I can close would be ideal in that situation. But other than that, I don't have a whole lot of needs.

I imagine my dream house would probably be ideally suited for reading and writing, since my wife also loves to read. It'd be great to have a comfortable couch in the family room, maybe a nice recliner in the living room, a loveseat in the den... a variety of spaces where we can cozy up with a book/Kindle/iPad/whatever-they-come-up-with-next and get lost in a piece of writing. Obviously, there would also have to be wifi across the whole space so I could read and write stuff on Writing.com as often as possible.

I suppose that in order to customize my dream house for maximum reading/writing benefit, the location would be more important than anything else. Somewhere quiet, obviously, but it'd be nice to be some place relaxing and scenic too, so those times when I need to rest my eyes from the computer screen can be spent staring at some kind of natural beauty. With that in mind, my perfect reading space would probably be somewhere tropical (Hawaii is a favorite of mine), lush and green (Pacific Northwest), or metropolitan with a lot of character (London, Paris, Rome, etc.).

Since we're talking about genies, though, how about an interdimensional house that defies the laws of physics and has a western Hawaiian exposure, a northern Pacific Northwest exposure, an eastern Venetian exposure, and a southern Los Angeles exposure? Yeah, now we're talking!