And we know it may or may not be great for reading novels and also possibly dangerous for those who read in bed.

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We are told that his parents the eye-and-ear surgeon William Wilde and the poet Jane Francesca Wilde, who wrote under the name Speranza accumulated mountains of books at their home, in Dublin, and that young Oscar habitually read in bed, his mind ravished by Irish folktales, ancient-Greek texts, Romantic poems, and gothic novels.

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An hourlong house call made by a doctor allowed Rowan to stay in bed and read her favorite books.

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Now we read tomorrow's newspapers in the evening before bed.

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Are you there for breakfast, do you get to read them a story at night, tuck them in bed?

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Fisher told me that her current boyfriend has read the complete works of Shakespeare aloud to her in bed, as well as some Dickens and Ibsen.

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One summer afternoon in Delhi, as the father lay in bed, his health in rapid decline, Manglik's sister Kalpana visited his bedside to read him a passage she had penned in a biography she was writing about him.

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