The phrase "a quiet reading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a peaceful or undisturbed time spent reading, often implying a focus on the material without distractions.
Example: "After a long week, I finally found some time for a quiet reading of my favorite novel."
Alternatives: "a peaceful reading" or "a serene reading".
The blocklong second-floor reading room offers views of trees and water and is punctuated by nooks and a quiet reading space — no talking allowed — with photographs on the walls of contemporary poets taken by Lynn Saville.
It is designed to foster collaborative learning and will include a quiet reading room, 16 group study rooms, an atrium and a cafe.
The Brody Learning Commons, scheduled to open in summer 2012, is a four-story facility designed to foster collaborative learning and will include a quiet reading room, 15 group study rooms, an atrium and cafe, and robust technology throughout.
Scheduled to open in summer 2012, the Brody Learning Commons is a four-story facility designed to foster collaborative learning and will include a quiet reading room, 15 group study rooms, an atrium and cafe, and robust technology (wireless, smart classrooms) throughout.
Generally, a child's room should have an area for books (perhaps a quiet reading area), adequate storage for clothing (think dresser and a place for items that require hanging) and a few key places to store favourite toys and games.
But for the independent soul whose idea of a good time is a quiet read, a soak in the pool and no unwanted conversations or interruptions, the absence of hotel trappings can be a relief.
What they didn't say was how many non-adult people had begun to use libraries and what kind of effect that might have been having on adults in search of a quiet read.
Yet, while it offers no other balm than dry humour and the strange pleasure of at last comprehending the nature of pain, The Detour is a beautiful, oddly moving work of fiction, a quiet read that lingers long in the mind, like the ghosts that linger in our homes, and in the land around us. John Burnside's Black Cat Bone is published by Jonathan Cape.
Guests can have a quiet read in the library or relax in their spacious suite adorned with grand furnishings and intricately carved archways.
They have a really quiet reading room where you can just sit and look at the river.
To be perpetually silent in the face of bigotry is to be complicit, but a little quiet reading in the privacy of one's own mind?
