your bathroom library

jasmineT · Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 82 Location: upstate

What's in your bathroom library? Do you have a stash of reading material in there, do you have a carry-in/carry out policy or do you prefer not to mix reading with business?

I just started wondering as I was cleaning the bathroom today. I realized we had the oddest collection of literature to an outside observer.
Including:
Mutations- by Rem Koolhaas
The Practical Handbook of Power Tools (a 60s shop book that rocks!)
Drug Topics magazine
Highlights magazine
Jamberry boardbook
The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat
Rodale's guide to insect pests and diseases
and a 1/2 finished Sunday NYTimes crossword puzzle

what are your picks?
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surfer rosa · Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Northampton, MA

We tend to just have the most recent issue of The Economist, although right now there is a courser reader for "Introduction to Cuban Society," too. Nothing too monumental ever really ventures into the bathroom.

peanut · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 82 Location: i'm a chi girl

i have varying amounts of stuff in the bathroom. in my last apartment I had a lot, cause I could put it on the tank, but now i live in an apartment with a weird tankless toilet (i heart chicago), so there's not really anyplace to put stuff...
but, i currently have:

latest issue of YM
library book about Dakar
_Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance_ by Jean Comaroff

heh.

s.rock · Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Oakland, CA

I put a basket next to the toilet just for this purpose, but its contents haven't changed in the past few months. I don't know if my roommate ever reads the stuff there, but I sure do.

-2 old copies of Allure;
-1 issue of Popular Science;
-1 small photo book about the USSR, c. 1965;
-1 large hardbound children's book about weather (with instructions for experiments!).

There's probably some more stuff there, but i can't recall it all. I gotta say I am getting tired of looking at pictures of Ukranian peasantry! Time to put something else there.

brdgt · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject:

Bitch, Bust, Electronic Gaming Monthly, US Weekly, Smithsonian, Alumni Magazines (University of Vermont, University of Massachusetts, Harvard), and a compilation of Onion stories.

Yup, we have some diverse interests!

amanelle · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 347 Location: NC

We currently have

-a Patricia Cornwell novel
-2 hotel coupon books

I usually leave a book in there but sometimes other stuff gets carried in.

empressCrash · Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 78 Location: Pacific NW

The Art of Worldly Wisdom. 16th century advice from Spain.
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vintage lilac · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Michigan

We only keep magazines in the bathroom so we can throw them out as soon as we've read them and it doesn't matter if they get wet or damaged. Bust and Ready Made have never been allowed in there.

Here's what's in there right now-
Michigan History
Rolling Stone
Cannibis Culture
Anthropologie catalogs
Marie Claire
Jane

Has anybody mentioned Uncle John's Reader? It's a series of books of one page informative essays or facts, the length of the articles depend on the length of time you plan on being in there for.

sun bear · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 443

my mom taught me that it's rude to read in the bathroom, so I don't do it. But I still remember someone asking me to borrow a book and then taking it to the bathroom, now THAT's rude. I don't care about people reading in the bathroom, but for god's sake, take your own stuff, and if you're at someone else's house, don't take their reading in there? It was esp gross b/c I lived in a dorm with those nasty dorm bathrooms and he took one of my text books in there.

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silverfish2007 · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 30

when i was growing up, we never had reading material in the bathroom. so i always thought it was wierd. plus, we were told that sitting on the toilet too long gives you hemroids! so when i moved in with my fiance, i thought it was really really strange that he read in the bathroom and also spent like 30 or 40 minutes sitting on the toilet sometimes! his parents both have reading material in their bathrooms at home, too, but no one in my family does. his mom even keeps those little hand held electronic games in the bathroom. i think if we ever have kids we will not keep books or magazines in the bathroom, because we only have one bathroom in our house and i dont want anyone getting in the habit of staying in there for extended periods of time.

CraftinFool · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 809 Location: New England

Man, I always camped out in the bathroom as a kid. I used to move the hamper over in front of the toilet and rest my book or magazine and hang out.

We have a wicker basket in the bathroom now with a crossword puzzle book and a bunch of magazines from the "leave some/take some table at the library - New Yorker, Utne, Popular Science, etc. and a Wine Guide that's my husband's. And a book of short stories. And a book satirizing the chinese zodiac - I have no idea why that is in there, it's kind of random - it's my husband's.

cackalackie · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 895

Books:
Eats Shoots and Leaves
World Fact Book

Magazine:
Most recent Real Simple

The funny thing is, the cover of this month's Real Simple says: "Time for Yourself. Where to Find it. How to Keep it." I chuckle everytime I look at that, because these days the only chance I get to read the darn magazine in peace is on the bog!!!

vintage lilac · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Michigan

On a different note, I have a Hawaiian themed bathroom and everybody keeps giving me books related to Hawaii to put in there!

lalamark · Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 85 Location: london england

I am an avowed bathroom reader, and as such I hate those special "reading in the bathroom" books--it's like reading the wallpaper or something.

Currrently I have Anthropologie catalogues, a NYT crossword puzzle book, Venus and ReadyMade magazines, and a bunch of decorating books (for use as home decor porn).

I had friends in college who kept a copy of Leaves of Grass on the back of their toilet. And yet they were Whitman fans...

twilight · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 330 Location: New Mexico

I lived in a commune for awhile and literally hundreds of copies of National Geographic were kept in the outhouses.

Now that my SO and I have our own place we have our own collection of NG for bathroom reading.

BTW-I loved Highlights magazine as a kid!
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