What's In Your Bathroom Library?

• Jun 29, 2017

• #101

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"The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public" by Elena Razlogova

"The Great Movie Comedy Teams" by Leonard Maltin

"Broadcasting and Broadcast Advertising" Magazine for February 22,1943.

"Letters From Afar," Volume 8 of the "Little Lenin Library."

"They'll Do It Every Time, Vol. 1" by Jimmy Hatlo

"The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, The Scientist, and the Lindbergh Kidnapping" by Adam Schrager

The 1944 Radio Daily Annual, edited by Jack Alicoate.

"Picture Book of TV Troubles Vol. 5: Horizontal Output and High Voltage Circuits" by John F. Rider.

 

• Jun 29, 2017

• #102

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Volume one of Churchill's "The Second World War." All six turned up as first editions at my local library's Saturday morning fundraising book cellar. I got them all for $16.

From the same source, "On The Road to Tara," by Aljean Harmitz, 1996. The making of Gone With the Wnd.

And always a stack of Peterman catalogs full of crap I can't afford.

 

• Sep 26, 2017

• #103

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I have mostly National Geo's and their new mag called "HISTORY" about interesting cultures, civilizations and wars throughout the worlds history. True West and Muzzleloader mags!

 

• Dec 15, 2017

• #104

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‘The School Bag’ and ‘The Rattle Bag’, both poetry compilations by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ by Rilke, one of those little Penguin £1 books.

 

• Dec 15, 2017

• #105

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What is in my bathroom library is whatever single volume I happen to be perusing at the time.

Right now it's Bloom County: Happy Trails.

 

• May 11, 2018

• #106

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As of this morning --

The Star Coin Book, an Encyclopedia of Rare American and Foreign Coins, 1932 Edition, by B. Max Mehl.

TV Guide, Northern New England Edition, for week ending July 5, 1969.

Television: 1938-41, Volume III, edited by A. N. Goldsmith et. al. "Property of National Broadcasting Company General Library, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York N. Y." I wouldn't know anything about that.

Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering The Countercultural Mister Rogers, by Dr. Michael G. Long.

Hokum: The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture, by Rob King

The Ruling Clawss: Cartoons From the Daily Worker by "A. Redfield," better known as Syd Hoff.

BG On The Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman, by D. Russell Connor

The Black Muslims In America, by C. Eric Lincoln.

 

• May 11, 2018

• #107

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I'm lucky that I have a small study with a cosy chair to read in. Would never even think about reading while on the can! Just how constipated are you folk? Maybe time to see your MDs!

 

• May 11, 2018

• #108

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I don't understand how people *don't* read on the can -- what else is there to look at? It helps, of course, to be a speedreader -- three minutes is plenty of time to read a chapter in about any book, or an article in the Atlantic Monthly. And if the article is by Caitlin Flanagan, it even saves the cost of toilet paper.

 

• May 11, 2018

• #109

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LizzieMaine said:

I don't understand how people *don't* read on the can -- what else is there to look at?

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There’s always the art work on the walls in the mens room!
Oh...wait...
Never mind!

 

• May 11, 2018

• #110

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LizzieMaine said:

I don't understand how people *don't* read on the can -- what else is there to look at? It helps, of course, to be a speedreader -- three minutes is plenty of time to read a chapter in about any book, or an article in the Atlantic Monthly. And if the article is by Caitlin Flanagan, it even saves the cost of toilet paper.

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Oh, I have a radio to listen to.

 

• May 11, 2018

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2jakes said:

There’s always the art work on the walls in the mens room!
Oh...wait...
Never mind!

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I always mentally correct their bad grammar! Yes, I am sad!

 

• Dec 2, 2018

• #112

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In third year law, my best friend and I shared an attic apartment in a Victorian house in London, Ontario. He kept his Sartre works on the towel shelving unit. Said it was the only spot in the place he'd have them within view. His master's degree was in political philosophy.

 

• Dec 11, 2018

• #113

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LizzieMaine said:

I don't understand how people *don't* read on the can -- what else is there to look at? It helps, of course, to be a speedreader -- three minutes is plenty of time to read a chapter in about any book, or an article in the Atlantic Monthly. And if the article is by Caitlin Flanagan, it even saves the cost of toilet paper.

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It takes me three minutes to read just about any sentence so this option is not available to me.

 

• Dec 12, 2018

• #114

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Usually a copy of Private Eye, a Charles Tyrwhitt or Samuel Windsor catalogue, a copy of The Chap, and the odd guitar magazine. I'm discouraged from reading on the toilet, though, for fear of developing piles. (Left to my own devices, I'll sit in there for an hour at a time.)

 

• Dec 12, 2018

• #115

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Right now, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire.

Come to think of it, what is in my bathroom library is usually What I Am Reading (or whatever the name of that thread is), as well.

 

• Dec 15, 2018

• #116

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HanauMan said:

I always mentally correct their bad grammar! Yes, I am sad!

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With me, it is spelling. I remember commenting once that all the graffiti in the park in Chadron NE was spelled correctly, right down to the apostrophe.

 

• Dec 15, 2018

• #117

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The latest Staff Picks in the Restroom Memorial Library --

"A Theology For The Social Gospel," by Walter Rauschenbusch

D C Comics Archive Edition: Plastic Man, Volume 1, by Jack Cole

The Broadcast 41: Women And The Anti-Communist Blacklist, by Carol Stabile

Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Brietman.

National Broadcasting Company Yearbook for 1937

Daguerreotypes of Great Stars of Baseball As Compiled By The Sporting News, edition of 1968.

Caught Short: A Saga of Wailing Wall Street, by Eddie Cantor

 

• Dec 17, 2018

• #118

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April 1925 issue of "The National Geographic". August 1924 issue of "QST", Fall 1925 edition of "Citizen's Radio Call Book', November 1899 issue of "The American Monthly Review of Reviews", December 2018 "Hemmings", and the September 2018 issues of "Onsite" and "Pumper" magazines.