How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Patton Oswalt

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Patton Oswalt is an avid reader.When he thinks about his ideal Sunday in the Valley, where he has lived for more than a decade, bookstores come up more than a few times, particularly ones like the neighborhood staple the Iliad, which encourages patrons to sit and read for hours.Currently, the 57-year-old comedian says he is rereading Mo Daviau’s 2016 time-travel/rock-nerd novel “Every Anxious Wave,” the plot to which he “truly can’t describe,” adding: “It’s about, especially for me, how does Gen X grow old? And how do they try to dodge growing old? It’s pretty f— brilliant.

Imagine a day just killing two or three hours in the Iliad just reading it.Oh, it’s the best.”In Sunday Funday, L.A.

people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town.Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.Not that Oswalt always has time to sprawl out with a novel.

Like any touring comedian of his caliber, he admits that his schedule is constantly in flux.Not only did he spend last summer and fall promoting his 10th stand-up hour, “Black Coffee and Ice Water” (out now on Audible), but he is constantly at work on new material.

On June 9, he’s launching “Tea & Scotch” on YouTube, which delves into more observational comedy subjects such as ghost-seeing cats, AI paranoia and parenting a teenager.(Oswalt tells The Times that his daughter usually does her own thing on weekends, but sometimes they’ll journey to Burbank and hit the vintage shops on Magnolia, followed by poke for lunch.)When he’s not earmarking time in his perfect Sunday for reading, Oswalt also delights in frequenting Valley small businesses that fully embrace the indie and oddball.

“I like where the Valley’s going.I like how its residents are aging,” says Oswalt.

“Because they’re aging into weirdness rather than safety, which ...