<p>Do you have one? If so, what’s on it?</p>
<p>Ours has the following:</p>
<p>Wildly Foxtrot
The Joy of Chemistry
Beethoven (by Solomon)
Five National Geographic magazines from 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Theories of Everything (note the plural in the title 
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German for Dummies
Cyberpunk
Learn Hungarian
Princeton Review: Crack the AP Psychology Test
A box of matches</p>
<p>ours is usually books of quotes, john’s bathroom readers, power of war…</p>
<p>You guys have a bookshelf in the bathroom? Ewww! I read my books on the couch by the fireplace or in the hammock on my porch (in the summer). In my book, bathrooms are strictly for the appropriate business. There are no books in our bathrooms, but I’ve seen H sneaking into our powder room with his laptop (that darn WiFi!).</p>
<p>John’s bathroom reader, the magazines with short articles (Sierra Club, Smithsonian, college magazines) and catalogs.</p>
<p>Nothing. I do not linger in the bathroom. However, my husband will take whatever he’s currently reading in there with him. Guess he figures he might as well multi-task. ;)</p>
<p>It’s better than the phone ;)</p>
<p>we don’t have a bookshelf, but I do have a basket of magazines/newsletters & catalogs, but I vow to get rid of at least three everytime I look at them.</p>
<p>The Sunday LA Times crossword puzzle.</p>
<p>I’m not patient enough to spend a lot of time reading while on the can. I want out of there as soon as possible. I prefer to be fully clothed and comfortably positioned on an overstuffed chair in a well lit space, with a hot or cold drink (depending upon the season) at my side.;)</p>
<p>That said, I do sometimes bring with me the book or magazine I happen to be reading at that moment when nature calls. But I’m not likely to tarry.</p>
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<p>Yes, a three-shelf one. It’s the only room in the house where one is guaranteed to be alone!</p>
<p>Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers are the greatest. Reader’s Digest is good for the bathroom, too.</p>
<p>Ah, multitasking in the bathroom.</p>
<p>Remember the line from Jeff Goldblum in the Big Chill where he says he writes for People so they can read it in the potty. My wife loves this mag, but she knows entirely too much about Britney Spears…</p>
<p>Owlice: Why do you have a box of matches on your bookshelf in the bathroom??</p>
<p>EWWWWW–I have 3 letters for this thread–TMI.</p>
<p>Bunsenburner - My very (!) limited observation of a species known as the fifty-year-old-man has me believing that they need more time to go about their business than the typical female and often need something to take their mind off of the task at hand. </p>
<p>I hadn’t thought of the possibility of wifi and a laptop in the bathroom. Oy!</p>
<p>We don’t have any reading material on a shelf in the bathroom but H often takes a book in with him.</p>
<p>If you have a laptop with wireless internet you don’t need books, magazines or newspapers.</p>
<p>In and out. Don’t take anything but me.</p>
<p>We do have CD’s and a CD player. Remnant of D’s life here. She loves long bathes and she blasts the music (from way across the other side of the room, of course). So I leave it for when she’s home from school. First night, she always has one of her music-bathes. And with waist-length hair the drain gets clogged. Ah. The joys.</p>
<p>Actually, I’ll take blasted music and clogged drains any ole day just to have her home. (She’s visiting from England on the 21st.)</p>
<p>um…I’m not too sure about taking my laptop into the bathroom??? ewww…</p>
<p>My MIL has always been a reader-in the- bathroom type. She now lives near us in an assisted living place, and is confined to a motorized wheelchair; transferring from it to the toilet takes some amount of effort for her. She literally spends HOURS every day reading in the toilet… all Louis L’Amour books! A few months ago, I reorganized the shelf in her bathroom (and behind/beside that shelf), and took out nearly 30 paperback books. She forgets and leaves them there, then can’t find what she WAS reading, so she starts a new one. After hearing her grumble that she “didn’t have anything to read”, I vowed to never reorganize her bathroom again! Sheesh!!! H is considering putting a phone extension in there, as she forgets to take her cell phone with her (and doesn’t answer voice mail messages). We frequently get calls from H’s siblings spread out all over the US, I’ve been trying to get in touch with Mom all day… now they all know she’s probably on the toilet!!!</p>
<p>Myself, I prefer the Bottom Line newsletter ! (pardon the pun!!!)</p>
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<p>Ahhh… ummmm… sometimes I’ll light a candle or two when I shower?</p>
<p>(Not really, but let’s pretend that’s why!)</p>
<p>Elleneast, the one to spend the most time, by a wide margin, in the bathroom at my house is my S, a high-school freshman.</p>
<p>A laptop in the bathroom? one word - eww.</p>
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<p>Ha! Hysterical…!</p>