Two of the criteria for moving from a condo to a house were it had to be all one level and near a library. The library was less than a mile.

I would select an author and read every book he wrote. Then every biography written about him. Then books by his contemporaries. During my Thomas Wolfe binge we vacationed in Asheville and toured his mother's boarding house.
I did most of my reading on the living room couch in front of the television between 7 and 9 p.m.

One of Q's earliest drawings is "Mom Reading On The Couch" with my toes spread wide apart.

Nowadays I don't read much. The eye specialist mutters about future surgery but not now. So I watch the television I didn't watch most of my life. It is numbing but provides company. Here is what catches my interest now:
House
Project Runway
The Soup
Gilmore Girls
Dirty Jobs
Thomas Wolfe would be not be impressed by my choices even if I spread my toes ever so provocatively.