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What's In Your Bathroom Library?

Jesse

New in Town
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43
Location
Texas
The Language of God
Guadalcanal Dairy (not my first publication of course)
Serenade To The Big Bird (not my first publication of course)
QST
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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33,763
Location
Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
Current browsing fodder --

The 1938 Woman's Almanac -- Facts By and About Women

SPERDVAC Radiogram for September 2010 (Newsletter of the Society For The Preservation and Encouragement of Radio Drama, Variety And Comedy)

Belfast-Rockland Telephone Directory, June 1945 (only 48 pages long, including the Yellow Pages)

The Voice of Columbia -- Newsletter of the Columbia Broadcasting System, November 1927
 

Pompidou

One Too Many
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1,242
Location
Plainfield, CT
There's an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader in the drawer under the sink, and some assorted magazines, but honestly, I don't bother with them. What I usually do is play a game on my iPhone or browse the internet. Once in a while, I'll take a book from the library in my room - usually the one I'm currently working on, or one relevant to whatever else I'm working on.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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33,763
Location
Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
Now browsing --

The Atlantic Monthly for October 2010 ("The Boomers' Last Chance!" Wait, how many chances do they get?)

They'll Do It Every Time, Book No. 2, by Jimmy Hatlo. A 1945 collection of the classic newspaper comic panel. Henry Tremblechin lives.

Best Broadcasts of 1938-39, edited by Max Wylie. A collection of scripts from the top radio programs of the year.

Billboard magazine for November 1940. On the cover, Larry Clinton shows off a very very unfortunate haircut.
 

Wire9Vintage

A-List Customer
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411
Location
Texas
I'm a bath TUB reader, so I take in books that I'm currently reading... right now I carry around Mad World, about Evelyn Waugh. I haven't figure out how to do electronics in the tub safely, so only books...

I also don't understand reading in the bathroom other than in the tub, which is where I do much of my reading. To each his or her own! I do dread to see the chap go in with reading material... that's him gone for AGES! :rolleyes: I guess i just don't find that seat to be as comfortable as some!
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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33,763
Location
Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
*bump*

Cleaning the bathroom today and sorting thru the book basket we find --

Liberty magazine for January 25, 1936, with Fred Astaire on the cover and the second installment of "Jafsie Tells All! Inside Secrets of the Lindbergh Case!"

Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook, a leather-bound collection of short pieces, quotes, epigrams, and assorted wisdom excerpted by the early 20th Century philosopher/iconoclast/oddball Elbert Hubbard.

The 1957 Schaefer and Lucky Strike Baseball Guide and Record Book.

The service manual for a Kodascope Pageant 16mm Sound Projector I've been rebuilding.

Pictorial Review for August 1936, featuring an article by Rudy Vallee on famous stars who've guested on his program.

Fading Ads of New York by Frank Jump, a hardcover coffee-table collection of photos of deteriorating painted-wall ads visible in and around The City.
 

J.W.

A-List Customer
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312
Location
Southern tip of northern Germany
When I went to university in England, we kept a copy of "War an Peace" in the bathroom. Our guests were usually impressed and some of them even spend more time than they would have needed in there....
Nowadays: Mailorder catalogues, travel literature and sometimes a novel finds its way there.
 
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13,468
Location
Orange County, CA
Usually one of the titles published by Osprey. Currently it's:

Russian Battleship vs. Japanese Battleship (Osprey Duel #15) by Robert Forczyk
Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2009

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HadleyH

I'll Lock Up
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4,811
Location
Top of the Hill
In my bathroom creams and Klennex and hair dryer soap things for my long hair like hair bands and pins...... eau the cologne a big bottle that I bought in Galeries Lafayette in Paris amazing cologne, orange blossom mmmmmmmm ..... that's about it



No books
 
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10,883
Location
Portage, Wis.
I used to always keep car magazines in the rest room. With the popularity of smart phones, nobody reads them anymore, so I don't. Less clutter in there now.
 

Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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6,116
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Appropriately enough, I keep a copy of "Uncle John's Great Australian Bathroom Reader" in my toilet.

It was a present from a friend a long time ago.
 

MisterCairo

I'll Lock Up
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7,005
Location
Gads Hill, Ontario
When I went to university in England, we kept a copy of "War an Peace" in the bathroom. Our guests were usually impressed and some of them even spend more time than they would have needed in there....
Nowadays: Mailorder catalogues, travel literature and sometimes a novel finds its way there.

My my best friend and I roomed together during our last year of law school, and we kept Jean Paul Sartre on our bathroom rack! My friend took his master's degree in political philosophy, and thought it the best place to keep Monsieur Sartre's works!
 
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11,579
Location
Covina, Califonia 91722
a Gun Test issue, The Big Nowhere, the Ikea Catalog, old copy of Cigar Aficionado with an article about home video editing, a book on samurai swords an art brown fountain pen catalog, National Lampoon's High School yearbook. A book on home video. A collection of "What About" pamphlets from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. An old Star Trek magazine. A sci-fi collection with the day of the triffids in it. A report on Esterbrook fountain pens.
 

DNO

One Too Many
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1,815
Location
Toronto, Canada
Nothing actually kept in the can but I am usually accompanied by my iPod Touch (to peruse local online newspapers) or one of the many issues of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers (didn't know about the Australian one, Shangas!).
 

1961MJS

My Mail is Forwarded Here
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3,370
Location
Norman Oklahoma
When I went to university in England, we kept a copy of "War an Peace" in the bathroom. Our guests were usually impressed and some of them even spend more time than they would have needed in there....
Nowadays: Mailorder catalogues, travel literature and sometimes a novel finds its way there.

Hi

I read A LOT, but I've never finished War and Peace. When I say a lot, I read over 50 books last year, not comic books either. I didn't like the characters in War and Peace, when I decided I hoped they all died, I just put the book down.

Later
 

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