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In fact the only thing missing from these bright, light, interconnected floors are cosy reading rooms – somewhere removed from the endless through-traffic of visitors pouring up the rotunda.
Bookshelves and libraries are back in vogue, whether they are being used as dividers in open-plan rooms (as seen at One Park Drive, a Canary Wharf development in east London), or in cosy reading areas (as in Hampstead Manor, a Mount Anvil development in north London).
Constructed right after the American Revolution in 1787, the 15-room brick house underwent renovations in 2005 to perfect the sparse, slightly medieval-looking decor, which offers enough variety to suit most travellers' tastes (Room 302 feels like a cosy reading room, while the duplex Presidential Suite is anchored by a spiral staircase and balcony reached through french doors).
If you have a floor lamp, place that next to the reading chair to create a cosy reading nook in your bedroom.
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Highly recommended is a faux fur throw to keep you cosy while reading in bed or watching a film.
As well as the cheap meals, and great communal kitchen, the hostel has cosy communal spaces for reading, browsing the vinyl collection and generally settling down.
It's a cosy place to read or work for a couple of hours and a local favourite.
I think there is a play-it-safe mentality at the moment, where anything other than mass market thrillers or cosy book club reads are seen as a bit risky, unless of course the book has won the Booker or has its own TV series.
It's ideal for cosy-cuddle reading; Little Penguin goes through the day with his carer (a nice touch - it's never specified whether this is Mother, Father, Gran or whoever) and the minimal text and speech bubbles are just enough to establish how special they are to each other... all the way to bedtime.
And there were, of course, some whose sense of dislocation didn't even involve the rest of the world: the rift had been so deeply absorbed that they were rendered foreigners in their own country, reading Jane Austen to feel cosy.
In the warm, cosy lounge, sipping red wine and reading a book while the Arctic storm swirls outside, it's not hard to see why Fredrik and Lena look so contented.
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