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Post by LouisXIV on Oct 21, 2011 16:45:47 GMT
It seems over the years I have always had some reading material in the bathroom. In the past that is where I kept the Readers Digest. The articles are a perfect length. I now have two volumes of the many written of "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader". Every page is just chucked full of little bits of history or facts.
Does anyone have any recommendations for more books that would work well in this environment. ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 21, 2011 17:50:39 GMT
Louis is listing literature for the loo? Now, that's a public service if I ever heard one!
My recommendation is to not keep anything of universal appeal in the bathroom if more than one adult has to use that john. Years ago my husband & I were staying with my sister & her husband in a one-bathroom house. A copy of one of Erma Bombeck's books was on the back of the toilet. Much grouchy pounding on the bathroom door ensued, as laughter could be heard from within.
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Post by onlymark on Oct 21, 2011 17:51:04 GMT
Not books, no.
Magazines maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2011 22:03:52 GMT
I'm a sort of Calvin & Hobbes bathroom reader.
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Post by LouisXIV on Oct 22, 2011 18:50:43 GMT
Well it is not looking like I will have to build a book shelf for the throne room.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2011 21:09:59 GMT
Magazines are necessary. Short articles.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 22, 2011 21:32:13 GMT
Oh, I'm afraid I don't agree. I keep a big stash of New Yorkers in the bathroom. That magazine is known for its lengthy articles. It gives a nice feeling of continuity from one potty visit to the next, plus the article actually gets read, as opposed to getting stacked on the coffee table with other magazines for later. Best of all, the New Yorker also has "The Talk of the Town" plus great cartoons for those bathroom moments when you just want a little something.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 23, 2011 3:03:11 GMT
I just want to report that I went to the library today and, thanks to Louis, I pounced on a book because it fits my potty perusing standards.
The book is A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz. It's subtitled On the trail of Vikings, conquistadors, lost colonists and other adventures in early America.
The cover is one of those cartoony maps such as can be found on menus in roadside eateries, so I'll have something to look at if I'm not quite up to reading.
It was a NYTimes Notable Book of the Year (2008). The Boston Globe says of it: "Wonderfully written and heroically researched ... Horwitz unearths whole chapters of American history that have been ignored."
So y'all plan on inviting me to your cocktail parties. I'll be scintillating with all my new knowlege & animated because of never being bored in the bacchousa.
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Post by LouisXIV on Oct 23, 2011 13:38:39 GMT
In case anyone is interested, here is where you can get the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers: bathroomreader.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 16:31:07 GMT
I remember back when there were things like The Whole Earth Catalogue to peruse on the toilet. And now I can't even remember what was in the Whole Earth Catalogue!
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Post by onlymark on Oct 23, 2011 17:10:17 GMT
In tend to take in there whatever book I'm reading at the time.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 23, 2011 17:27:56 GMT
Catalogs are great bathroom reading. I guess racing forms would be, too, if that were ones interest.
Books I've found in other people's bathrooms include poetry(!), The Old Farmers' Almanac, and The Guinness Book of Records.
I wish I knew the name of a book that lived in a friend's bathroom years ago. It was great bathroom reading, & wildly funny. It was a compendium of misprints and typos, but best of all, clunky writing that accidentally said something other than what was meant. The example I'll always remember was:
"The women squatted over the cooking fires. There was a smell of burning meat."
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Post by LouisXIV on Oct 23, 2011 18:27:26 GMT
"I remember back when there were things like The Whole Earth Catalogue to peruse on the toilet." I may be dating myself, but remember the "Sears and Roebuck Catalogue" in the out house and it had a dual purpose.
"Ripley's Believe it or Not" Is another one I remember.
I also have some beautiful photo books from my former exchange students from all over the world and I guess they are "coffee table" books, but on occasion they have been found in the throne room.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 19:50:59 GMT
Since my WC room (which is not my bathroom) is bigger than normal, I would need a wheelbarrow to remove all of the reading material.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 29, 2011 15:13:46 GMT
A lot of "Christmas books" - compilations, humorous books, cartoon collections and the like - end up in mine.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 30, 2011 20:26:07 GMT
My sister has a pile of ' Giles' cartoon books.... forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/adventures-on-my-fathers-bookcase-giles-cartoons/Used to have Readers' Digest and National Geographic in ours when I was a girl... My OH thinks that it's a terrible thing to do so if I want to read 'in there' I have to take my own....which, when you think about it, is much worse..... My choice would be old Peanuts paperbacks, Hagar the Horrible or any Gary Larson Far Side books...of which I have many... www.hagarthehorrible.net/there's always Quantum for the Perplexed if it's going to be a particularly long visit.... btw...I do enjoy a read in the bath...so I don't tend to borrow books from people... ;D |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2016 16:40:17 GMT
I have a book of photos of Paris "then" and "now."
I have a small atlas for checking maps when a thought comes to mind.
I have a little Calvin & Hobbes paperback.
I have the post-Charlie cartoon book Catharsis by Luz, one of the Charlie Hebdo survivors, who has left Charlie since then.
I have a bookcase with about 200 other paperback books in it.
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Post by mossie on May 30, 2016 19:13:04 GMT
I am a shower person, so books are out of the question. As for the pot, that is just potty, never reckon to spend very long there.
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