The Reading Room

[filkertom]

Cordelia's Honor
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Irresistible Forces
Diplomatic Immunity
The Curse of Chalion
Kingdom Come (novelization)
Fables, collected Vol. 2
several issues of PVP, Girl Genius and XXXenophile
the newest PC Gamer

So what's in your bathroom library right now?

Comments

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

....Hmmm, looks like you've gotten hooked on Bujold -- congratulations, it's a lovely addiction. What I wonder, though, is how long before we see Mile Vorkosigan songs out of you.

Then again, there's Kingdom Come -- you need to find the "secret chapter" online, called "Elephant's Dance"

My bathroom? Not much, I don't read much in the bathroom, so it's usually catalogs or something. Now if you wanted to discuss the pile at my bedside . . .

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

The Bujold thing is a loooong story, but there have been a few snippets of unfinished Miles songs over the years, including the obvious Who parody. Eventually, maybe.

"Elephant Dance" -- I guess I do. :)

Enjoy!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

http://superman.ws/Maggin/KC-Chap14.php

Re: Enjoy!

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I just went to look for it. You saved me the search. Not that it was hard, but . . . *Grin* I think I'll re-read it.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Three months of UU World.

You so win.

[tpau]

Komarr, Memory, Hallowed Hunt, HP6, and yesterdays mail...

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Currently?

"I Rant, Therefore I Am" by Dennis Miller, bought recently at a library book sale and a reminder that he was still pretty funny in 1997.

The latest issues of: History Channel magazine, Playboy, SysAdmin, and Entertainment Weekly.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

There isn't room in our bathroom for one, but I've been known to leave Roger Ebert's I Hated This Movie or one of the Star Trek Nitpicker's Guides in there ... anything, really, that you can just pick up, flip to a random page of, and start reading.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Although in retrospect, I really should have used THIS userpicture.

[kshandra]

Several of Paradox Press' "Big Book" volumes, a couple News of the Weird compilations (which I just typoed as "complications"), a couple of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers - as cynthiarose said, something you can open at random and find something amusing to read.

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Have a Nice Day (A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Best. Rasslin. Book. Ever.

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[filkferengi]

The lawyer I'm married to agrees, adding that it's better than the Rock's book or Angle's.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

A bunch of stuff, but the last thing I remember looking at in there is Servant of the Empire by Feist and Wurts.

I know we tend to keep a certain type of book there; they have little readable pieces of the entertaining sort. Things like The NYPL Answer Book (questions and answers from their phone-a-librarian service) and Why are Flamingos Pink?

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste by Jane and Michael Stern and last week's issue of Entertainment Weekly.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That's where I keep the humor, since it's easy to pick up and put down. Let's see - the For Better or For Worse Farley collection, the complete Leonard & Larry set, Dork Towers collections 1-6 (#7 will join them soon), a couple of early Dilberts, a couple of Calvin & Hobbs collections, the first five Kevin and Kell compliations, the first six Lady Tudor Glitzes, and two anthologies of feminist humor, including the new "Life's a Stitch" charity book.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

MMmmmm, Bujold.

*pauses to go to The Happy Place for a bit*

Current book-in-progress is Sue Towndsend's Adrian Mole: The Lost Years.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Ben Franklin's autobiography
The Caine Mutiny
Nobody's Perfect, by Donald E. Westlake
Harvard Classics, vol. 45
Artemis Fowl
The Shiva Option, by David Weber
Last week's local alternative newsweekly

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I just read a recent biography of Franklin -- I forget the author, though. It makes for interesting triangulation with Founding Mothers, which I'm currently working on. Cokie Roberts sure likes exclamation points, doesn't she? :-)

[per_solo]

"The Redemption of Althalus", by Eddings, and the new Harry Potter book, to be finished after I read the last 150 pages of Althalus..

And, assorted comics, Mage: The Hero Discovered book 2, Munchkin Player's Guide, the latest Previews magazine.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Hm. I liked the Belgariad etc. and Elenium etc. series, but haven't picked up Althalus b/c it looked more like horror... how is it?

[per_solo]

It wasn't bad, in my opinion, and I'm not quite sure what i thought it lacked, but it was a fun read...IMHO, some neat theories on time...I read one review that said the first 2/3 was great, but that the last 1/3 felt muddled..I'd say that's a fair description.

I'm sure the friend who loaned it to me will be loaning me the Belgariad next.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll wait on it for now, I've got enough books waiting to be read already...

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

Nothing in the bathrooms as far as reading material, but there's a pen near the toilet paper in case someone becomes...inspired.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I don't keep any readnig material in the bathroom. If I'm going for an extended stay, I take the book I'm currently reading with me.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

HP6, 1634:The Galileo Affair by Flint, Dark of the Sun by Yarbro, Frontier Earth by Boxleitner, Alien Taste by Spencer, and Cloak of Deception by Luceno. Those and about two dozen catalogs that want me to buy the latest patio furniture and kitchen gadgets. (I am a sucker for new kitchen gadgets.)

Of course, the husband has an entire three-shelf bookcase over on his side, stuffed to the ceiling. He doesn't read as fast as I do.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Catalogs:
Cheaper Than Dirt
Major Surplus N Survival
American Science N Surplus
Musicmaker's Kits
Stewart MacDonald
Harbor Freight
Musicians' Friend
Museum Replicas
The Renaissance Store
Jas. Townsend and Son

And probably some others I'm forgetting.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

About half a dozen MAD paperbacks that are almost older than I am. OH and an old copy of Martha Stewart's mag for the planting tips.

But then again, I've just moved and not many of my books are out of boxes yet.

NO, the new Harry Potter book never made it to the bathroom. Maybe for the re-reads.

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

I don't read in the bathroom--generally don't have to. (I know, TMI.) But Dan is reading Uncyclopedia, a book of lists and interesting factoids.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I have Paladin of Souls in there, along with the second book in the Oz series.

I can't tell if Baum was sexist, or if he was poking fun at sexist attitudes with the all-girl army. Unfortunately, I'm leaning toward the less subtle answer...

I can't build up a good collection in there, because Donna keeps insisting she needs those shelves for towels instead. Hmmph!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. Between, say, General JinJur and the girl who broke the Tin Man's heart, yes, Baum was a sexist through and through. Except for the little girl hero, and the witches rather than wizards being the ones with magical power and leadership ability, and Queen Ozma, Aunt Em being more practical and level-headed than Uncle Henry, and.... ;)

[monkey0science.livejournal.com]

The Monty Python Songbook.

And where are they selling xXxenophile anymore?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Online, mostly. These are original issues.

[barbarakitten-t.livejournal.com]

my laptop (until the upstairs toilet overflowed and leaked through the ceiling...) now it's whatever i have in hand (no pun intended) (varley's the golden globe, plimpton's truman capote, sisterhood of the travelling pants, hannah holmes suburban safari.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

Stack of silly romance novels, a couple random fantasy, Freedom and Nescessity, The Diary of Lady Nijo, and one or two eroticas.

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Alligators and Old Lace by Kinky Friedman
Too many magazines: Atlantic, Smithsonian, No Depression, Comics Buyers Guide ...

When they topple over, I clear 'em out.

[ludzu-alus.livejournal.com]

The Invisible Hand by Ilmars Birznieks
America by Jon Stewart
Master/Slave by N.T. Morley
Thrice Upon a Time by James P Hogan
Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
Troy: Homer's Iliad Retold general editor Michael J. Anderson
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
2 issues of Dragon Magazine
1 issue of Realms of Fantasy
1 issue of Nature's Best Photography
1 issue of Dwell

[jss]

Nothing, but I'm now sharing a corporate apartment with a coworker.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I like your taste... but if we kept that much Bujold in there, I'd never leave!

[moose]

I do most my book-reading in bed.

For over two weeks now I've been slowly taking in Jonathan Lethem's "Fortress of Solitude." It's very thick going but oh! so very good. It's very different from his first book, "Gun, With Occasional Music," which is more of a Film Noir-ish murder mystery with SF overtones [and comedy]. "Fortress" is more "novel of life" but with such rich characters you can't go through it quickly.

Next in the queue: "Anonymous Rex" and "Casual Rex" by Eric Garcia. My mom recommended the series to me. It's about a PI who is a velociraptor, and there's a secret society of dinosaurs who are disguised as humans. Mom says they're hysterially funny. Can't wait to read them, although I don't want "Fortress" to end.

[james-rayner.livejournal.com]

*coughs*

Winter's Heart
Exile's Valor
Pawn of Prophecy (Gotta remember to put that away later.)
Song of Susannah
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (All 5 books in one big paperback.)
Uncle John's ULTIMATE Bathroom Reader (I love these book.s)
Occaisonally a new copy of Game Informer, PC Gamer, or sometimes Readers Digest.
And whatever book I currently have my nose buried in at the time.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Just a couple of books.

Memory
A Civil Campaign

In the CAR library though, I've got a stack.
Latest Game Informer
Arbella Stuart
Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century
Harry Potter & HBP(we have multiple copies in my house)
Young Miles
Latest Reader's Digest
Benjamin Franklin

(Go on, guess what my major is. ^^)