Editing Christian Science Reading Room (section)

==Part of the American landscape==
[[image:Chr sci read rm newbern nc.jpg|250px|right|thumb|A Christian Science Reading Room in [[New Bern, North Carolina]], US]]
In many parts of the U.S., Christian Science Reading Rooms are ubiquitous parts of the downtown landscape. A book by Kristin Hahn speaks of "Breezing by the Christian Science Reading Rooms prominently centered on main streets all across America."<ref>{{cite book|title=In Search of Grace: A Journey Across America's Landscape|author=Kristin Hahn|year=2003|publisher=Harper|id=978-0380802715}}</ref>

Novelists use them to characterize respectable-but-prosaic commercial districts. A mystery novel by Loren D. Estleman characterizes the location of a detective office by putting it among a beauty school, a plumbing supply store, "a hearing-aid shop, [and] a Christian Science reading room next to a medical supply outlet."<ref>Estleman, Loren D. (2002). ''A Smile on the Face of the Tiger''. Mysterious Press. {{ISBN|0446678171}}</ref> A fictional cop in a novel by Peter Plate steers a patrol car "past Siegal's Tuxedo Shop, Queen's Shoes, Discoteca Latina, The Eggroll Express, The Christian Science Reading Room, and Duc Loi's Meat and Fish Company."<ref>Plate, Peter (2003). ''One Foot Off the Gutter''. Seven Stories Press. {{ISBN|1583222596}}.</ref> The Simpsons' fictional town of [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]] contains one.<ref>[http://www.snpp.com/guides/bibliography05.html Lisa the Skeptic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051206090427/http://www.snpp.com/guides/bibliography05.html |date=December 6, 2005 }},' Simpsons episode 5F05, in which an anti-science mob attacks a Christian Science Reading Room</ref>