What's In Your Bathroom Library?

[Jesse]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Katarina]

Usually it's Smithsonian, but now I've downgraded to InStyle.

 

[LizzieMaine]

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]

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! I guess i just don't find that seat to be as comfortable as some!

 

[randooch]

We Vegetarians

don't have time to read much in that room. lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

*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.]

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.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

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

 

[HadleyH]

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

 

[Mr Vim]

Currently there is a copy of the Art of Manliness blog's Manvotationals in my bathroom.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

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]

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]

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!

 

[John in Covina]

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]

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]

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

 

[J.W.]

Well, only because we had the book on the loo doesn't mean that I've read it. And it's unlikely that I ever will. Same goes for Jane Austen books.

 

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