HD was a little dismayed after using my bathroom last Friday night. "Bob," she said, "bathroom reading is meant to be light. It's meant to be something you can pick up and glance through for thirty seconds or so."
The books in my bathroom at that point were:
God's Peoples: A Social History of Christians (Spickard and Cragg)
Third World Economic Development (Michael Todaro)
Future Grace (John Piper)
As it turns out, she was worried about my digestive health. I took her words to heart and replaced them with Maniac Magee, Poems of Yeats, an Amy Tan book, and two shorts by Graham Greene. I guess I just always associated bathroom reading with heavy business. But I'm open to suggestions.
Posted by nickles at September 8, 2004 05:56 PMI agree with HD (who for some reason in my mind I want to think of as Hilda Doolittle, though I know that can't be right). I read Neruda's love poetry in the bathroom. And my new best friend Denise.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 8, 2004 11:35 PMHiding under my bathroom cabinet is A Midwife's Tale, the annotated diary of a Puritan midwife/lay physician. A really fascinating book that I picked up after seeing the film on the same subject with my old roommate Steph. But then, sometimes one goes to the bathroom just to escape, you know?
Posted by: tuggy at September 10, 2004 02:59 PMOooh. Midwives huh?
I just added two books that I really want to read (the others are really just for guests - I've read most of them already). The two new ones: *Bleak House* by Dickens and **Waking the Dead* by John Eldridge.
Posted by: bob at September 15, 2004 10:34 AM